The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is harnessing the power of hundreds of off-the-shelf Intel processors inside Dell PowerEdge servers to provide the power of supercomputers at a fraction of the cost. Penn State built its first evaluation cluster using Dell Precision workstations during the summer of 1998. With scalability confirmed, the school then built a full-fledged cluster with 33 Dell PowerEdge 43501 servers. The 64-processor LION-X cluster - named in honor of the school mascot and the cluster's operating system - provided compute power to more than 30 researchers exploring everything from materials design to weather modeling.
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