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Media Relations

Deal with IBM targets new jobs, IU computer upgrade

Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
Nov 30, 2006

By Rick Callahan

IBM Corp. dangled two attractive offers -- 1,000 new jobs and a big expansion of Indiana University's powerful supercomputer -- before state officials in the company's negotiations for a contract to upgrade Indiana's welfare system. IU and Purdue would jointly own the new "e1350 BladeCenter Cluster," which would be located at the same IU complex that houses Big Red.

Read the entire story at: http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/16131221.htm

Read more about IU's supercomputer: http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/3660.html

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