The Tandy Supercomputing Center, a private cloud built for an entire community in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

When people join their efforts and willingness to tackle issues ,develop infrastructures in its community, it always looks
wonderful.

The Tandy Supercomputing Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma launched as the home to one of the country’s first shared, publicly available supercomputers belongs in one of the great accomplishment in the story of Tulsa, city.

The project is the fruit of a collaboration between The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma State University, The University of Oklahoma, Tulsa Community College, the city of Tulsa, business owners and nonprofit foundations with the final goal to give community members ‘’equal access to a $3.5 million, 100-node supercomputing system at a fraction of the cost to build their own’’.

 According to Libby Clark, ‘’providing access to high-performance computing is also a potential boon for economic development in Tulsa by helping to speed academic research and the business community's time to market.’’

“We’re lucky to live in a community in which collaboration isn’t a bad word,” said David Greer, executive director of the Oklahoma Innovation Institute.

The Tandy Supercomputing Center is essentially a private cloud built for an entire community. The center, housed at Tulsa City Hall, holds 100 nodes with 128 GB of RAM, comprised of two 2.7 GHz Intel Xeon CPUs each running Red Hat Linux for a total of 1600 cores with about 30 Teraflops at current capacity.

The cost for members is a one-time fee of $10,000 per node plus $2,500 per node per year in maintenance fees. But several nodes are reserved for free public use through a grant application process to startups, nonprofits and other groups that cannot afford the initial cost.