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Construction is under way on the Holland Computing Center, expected to open on the first floor of the Peter Kiewit Institute in September, said Winnie Callahan, the institute's director. The supercomputer will rev university research to previously unimaginable levels, Callahan said, making it possible for professors and students to do hands-on research they had previously only dreamed of. It will also rev economic development: Several companies are looking to move to Omaha at least partly because of the chance to use the Holland Computing Center, Callahan said. A chunk of the computing center's 2,000 square feet of space will be taken up by the machine itself: A cluster of Dell computers running Windows CCS. More here: http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10081102