Short Take: M.I.T. lab gets $2.6M from Sun

M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Computer Science and Laboratory for Nuclear Science said that Sun Microsystems has donated nine Ultra Enterprise 5000 symmetric multiprocessor servers and related equipment collectively valued at approximately $2.6 million for use in MIT's Xolas high-performance computing project. The computers will be used to perform large-scale computations in the physical sciences.