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BUFFALO, NY -- Platform Computing announced that it is collaborating with Dell to build the country's largest Linux cluster at a U.S. educational institution. Using Platform's popular LSF 5 workload management software, the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo is creating a high-performance computing cluster of 2,000 dual-processor Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) servers to accelerate cancer research, including human genome research, bio-informatics, protein structure prediction and large-scale computer simulations. Platform LSF 5 will automate and manage the complex computational workloads across SUNY's multiple Linux clusters, enabling SUNY researchers to perform millions of complex calculations and exhaustive comparisons per second, accomplishing work that was previously reserved for multi-million dollar supercomputers and mainframes, at a fraction of the cost. As a result, these researchers will be able to exploit and analyze diverse types and sources of biological data in a shorter period of time, and at a fraction of the cost than would otherwise be possible. This technology has the potential to dramatically accelerate time to discovery, in the race against time for critical drugs and therapies to combat life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, Alzheimer's, AIDS and a variety of other diseases. "This integrated solution clearly demonstrates the impact of Enterprise Grid computing on life-saving discoveries," said Paul Hill, vice president, marketing and business development, Platform Computing. "It also validates our recently-announced alliance with Dell to deliver solutions for high-performance computing clusters (HPCC), assisting in data-intensive areas like cancer research, seismic imaging and heart arrhythmia research."