It was announced 18 June, 2008, that HCC Southeast College is assembling a "super computer" cluster, made up of 16 machines each with 4 gig of RAM (expandable to much more), 3 gig dual-core processors and for each a full Tera-byte of hard drive storage. All will run under the Linux operations system. When networked with the appropriate high performance computing software, these machines become effectively a very large parallel processing array of formidable power.

HCC SE is offering this powerful super computer cluster as a resource for the TORRE initiative, expecting to host some of the most difficult problems in Astronomy for solution. Cosmological simulations, animations of colliding galaxies, the birth of stars and planets, SEI, “Dark age” modeling, and many similar questions can be platformed by this super computing cluster. Watch this section of the web site for regular updates on the various problems being undertaken by this significant resource, and consider how you yourself might become involved in this kind of research effort!