It was one of the first clusters to employ Intel's second generation Xeon E5 "Sandy Bridge" processor and ranked 54th on the November 2011 TOP500 list, making it Purdue's first Top 100-ranked research computing system.
Each faculty partner always has ready access to the capacity he or she purchases and potentially to more computing power when the nodes of other investors are idle.
[3] The campaign created the first broad brand awareness of a microprocessor as a key ingredient in a personal computer and made Intel’s logo a feature on the outside of most of the world’s PCs, while its five-note jingle became one of the most recognizable tunes on television.
Carter also worked with Intel President Andy Grove to create the iconic Pentium brand name.
The Carter cluster continues ITaP's practice of naming new supercomputers after notable figures in Purdue's computing history.