The print version has a different title that I like better:

"Supercomputing's best-kept secret found in ... Buffalo?" - NETWORKWORLD, 1/15/07:

That’s why the university’s CCR also is the hub for a regional grid that connects 18 other research and educational institutions across New York.

CCR also provides the compute power behind research at the University at Buffalo's School of Management’s into the buying habits of customers at the local Tops supermarket chain.

CCR is crunching out the visualization for civic projects such as

• returning vehicle traffic to a downtown section of Buffalo’s Main Street (which was made into a pedestrian mall in the 1980s as a new light-rail system emerged);
• building a new bridge across the Niagara River between Buffalo and Canada¹;
• relocating a New York State Thruway toll plaza farther out into the suburbs to relieve congestion coming into the city

CCR has the potential to play a key role in turning around Buffalo’s fortunes. It could help bring people back to a city that’s lost more than half its population in the last 50 years.

Furlani believes the raw compute power located in the medical campus corridor could attract life sciences companies to set up their headquarters in Buffalo.

Now, here's a guy who works with computer networks and yet he believes that companies will feel a need to locate themselves close to his computing services?! Hope indeed does spring eternal in the land of endless winter.

Hope against hope, the indelible virtue of Buffalo's progeny; we're all infected. Kyrie eleison.

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