New Search Engine Can be Used for Creative Discovery

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Virginia Techs supercomputer System X is an 1100 Apple Xserve G5 cluster. It is part of the universitys research computing resource available for faculty research.
Virginia Tech's supercomputer, System X, is an 1100 Apple Xserve G5 cluster. It is part of the university's research computing resource, available for faculty research.

When you ask a supercomputer to tell a story, you might not expect a creative outcome – or any. But a group of Virginia Tech researchers are using System X, the university’s supercomputer, to test a new search program that can tell the stories of life – the connections between gene sets, for instance, or the connections between discoveries reported in biomedical articles on the U.S. National Library of Medicine PubMed database.


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