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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania upped funding to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for the next fiscal year by 65 percent to $2.5 million, said Governor Ed Rendell, because its services are important to the state. "This is a great institution that spreads its wings throughout the southwest Pennsylvania region," he said, speaking last week at Waynesburg College, "and we’re grateful for that."

Economic development was the theme of the event, "Regional Business Opportunities in Supercomputing" a seminar put on by the Supercomputing Science Consortium (SC2), a regional partnership of nine colleges, universities and research organizations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. SC2 provides intellectual leadership and resources in high performance computing and communications to advance research capabilities of the region.

Through SC2, Evergreene Technology Park in Greene County provides a channel for companies to collaborate with local universities in southwest Pennsylvania and West Virginia and to have access to exceptional computing resources of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

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