DELL and GATEWAY are our chosen hardware partners. Each company offers compute servers specifically aimed at the high performance computing sector. Up to 24 compute cores are now available on a single motherboard, and with up to 4 motherboards per server, give a staggering 96 compute cores in 2U of rack space. Add this to our ability to integrate these nodes into a super low latency MPI infrastructure and suddenly super computer power is available to a research department for minimal cost.