The Department of Computer Science has been working on Xseed to
provide supercomputing service to enhance teaching, learning, and
research, including sensor networking, high-end graphics, animation,
and complex computational problems among other capabilities.
Bowie State’s Computational Capacity Ranks Top 25 Worldwide
Xseed was ranked 166th in the TOP500 listing of the world’s
fastest computers, placing Bowie State in the top 25 universities
worldwide and the top 15 in the United States in computational
capacity.
Cross-Campus Collaboration on Xseed
On June 5, 2008, the Xseed group of Bowie State, Dr. Okon Akpan,
Dr. Bo Yang, Dr. Sharad Sharma, and Lubomir Riha visited Virginia
Tech for collaboration in supercomputing.
Overview
Xseed is a local name for the Bowie State University's Apple's G5
supercomputer.
On March 9, 2005, Bowie State University, in cooperation with Apple
Computer,
Inc., built a $1 million supercomputer which the university named
Xseed. The name,
Xseed, was inspired by one of the American frontier-man, Johny
Appleseed, who,
according to the legend, spread his apple seeds throughout the
Northeast and the
Great Lakes region, and from the germinated seeds sprang up
countless apple trees
along the way. It is the hope of BSU that Xseed will similarly
produce the seeds of
inspiration in the university's community and beyond, the
inspiration that will lead
to the widespread of the supercomputer for research, education, and
business.
