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The Maui High Performance Computing Center is located in a single-story building in the dusty red hills just above the town of Kihei. The MHPCC is a unique place where the brainy culture of science and engineering and the laid-back culture of the Hawaiian islands coexist in peaceful equilibrium. The IBM SP Power3 supercomputer housed within the MHSCC clocks in at 837 billion floating-point operations per second. The lab's slogan on the lab's 2000 web site sums it up: "Computing in paradise"