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| | West Virginia University |
 | | West Virginia University (WVU) is located in Morgantown, West Virginia, just 70 miles south of Pittsburgh, Penn. On the main campus and four regional campuses, WVU serves 22,000 students. |
 | | Because of its location in coal country, WVU has on its faculty several leading researchers in energy-related fields-areas such as power plant design, turbine construction, and fossil fuel research. |
 | | The challenge for WVU was to create an Intel architecture, Linux-based cluster that would be compatible with clusters at peer research institutions, allowing researchers to take advantage of shared computing resources. |
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