Lawrence-based Atipa delivers computer cluster
The University of Nebraska is the latest collegiate customer to buy a computer cluster from Lawrence-based Atipa Technologies.
Atipa the high-performance computer division of Microtech Computers Inc., 4921 Legends Drive delivered the $600,000 computer cluster last week to the school's campus in Lincoln, Neb.
The hardware built in Lawrence already has been dubbed "Prairie Fire" by university researchers. The cluster operates 1,000 times faster than a personal computer and has enough storage to handle every book in the Library of Congress, said Bret Stouder, director of Atipa.
The cluster consists of 256 AMD Athlon 1.4 gigahertz processors, networked with more than a half mile of fiber-optic cable.
Last year, Atipa built and delivered a $1 million supercomputer cluster for Clemson University in Clemson, S.C.
Bonner Springs: Berkel & Co. hired to help clean up at WTC site
Stabilizing the walls surrounding what once was the World Trade Center is unlike any other job a Bonner Springs-based construction company has ever worked on.
And Berkel & Co. Contractors Inc. has worked under difficult conditions before, while drilling foundations for oil refineries and office complexes around the world.
Its reputation for good work in hard conditions was part of the reason the 40-year-old company was asked to join the cleanup effort at ground zero in December.
Last year, the magazine Engineering News-Record ranked Berkel & Co. the sixth-largest excavation/foundation contractor in the United States.
Although company officials are satisfied to have been picked for the job, they say the project brings them no enjoyment.
Magazine: Newsweek offering early retirement deals
Newsweek magazine is offering early retirement packages to about 12 percent of its staff in an attempt to cut costs during an advertising downturn.
The packages have been offered to 85 employees who are 55 or older and have worked for the magazine at least 10 years, Newsweek spokesman Ken Weine said.
The magazine has a full-time staff of 740.
Executives don't know how many people will take the voluntary packages, Weine said. Newsweek last offered such packages in the mid-1980s.
Newsweek, which has a domestic circulation of 3.1 million, is owned by The Washington Post Co.
Donald Graham, the company's chief executive, said last month that news weeklies are "alive, well and vitally important to our readers," but the advertising situation is "dreadful."
Timber: Willamette Industries agrees to takeover offer
Willamette Industries said Monday it had agreed to a sweetened $6 billion takeover offer by rival Weyerhaeuser, ending 14 months of jockeying between the two timber giants.
The companies said Weyerhaeuser would pay $55.50 per share in cash, 50 cents per share more than what Weyerhaeuser Chairman Steven Rogel last month called his final offer.
Willamette said its board was expected to consider the deal before the end of the month.
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