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Hiroo Kanamori Recipient of the Prestigious Kyoto Prize
Hiroo Kanamori has been honored as one of this year's recipients of the prestigious Kyoto Prize which is awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation. Hiroo was cited for "Elucidation of Physical Processes of Earthquakes and Its Application to Hazard Mitigation". This is a well deserved award that honors a lifetime of scientific contributions that have contributed to the betterment of the human condition. You can read more about the prize and Hiroo's work on this website: http://www.inamori-f.or.jp/e_kp_lau_thi.html.
2007 Upgraded Beowulf Supercomputer
One of the most powerful computer clusters in the academic world exists in the sub-basement of the Seismological Laboratory at Caltech in the Geological and Planetary Sciences Division. One of the uses of this super computer is to unlock the mysteries of earthquakes. Originally built in July 2005, the supercomputer was recently upgraded in February 2007. The new 'Beowulf' cluster contains 512 dual quad core processors with 12.63 GB RAM, 2.3GHZ and 6 Terra Bytes of distributed memory, Myrinet connections and 35 Terra Bytes of disk space. This project was funded by Dell, Intel, Myricom and the National Science Foundation. It is equivalent to 4096 personal computers- like the one you are probably surfing the net on now!
To learn more visit our Research page.
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