Media Advisory
NC State to Receive Donations for State-of-the-Art Computing System
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Mick Kulikowski, News Services, (919) 515-3470
Nov. 27, 2007
Media coverage is invited.
North Carolina State University will announce a $2.4 million computer equipment donation from Intel that will support a next-generation computing system created to increase North Carolinians' access to technology.
Intel's donation to the Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) will be announced at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Progress Energy Conference Center (room 3002) in Engineering Building II on NC State's Centennial Campus. Media coverage is invited.
The VCL, part of an effort to bring affordable computing resources to K-12 schools, community colleges and universities, as well as high-performance resources to university researchers, allows students and researchers to access powerful computing software and hardware remotely. Students and teachers across the state will be able to log in to a central computer located hundreds of miles away and access state-of-the-art computing software.
IBM is complementing the Intel gift with a donation of about $1.2 million, while NetApp is providing computer storage. Other partners and supporters include SAS Institute, NC State's Friday Institute and the new Secure Open Systems Institute.
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