The Texas Advanced Computing Center, or TACC, is buying a supercomputing cluster from IBM, the latest announcement in a busy month for supercomputer purchases.

Housed at the University of Texas at Austin, the center will use the cluster to help model surface and subsurface flow in hopes of improving oil-drilling techniques. IBM officials on Friday declined to release the price of the deal.

TACC, which last year bought a cluster of IBM Power4 systems armed with 64 processors, is purchasing another cluster of 32 eServer pSeries servers, each holding four 64-bit Power4 chips, and a 32-way p690 for jobs that require a lot of shared memory, according to IBM, of Armonk, N.Y.

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