Oklahoma, Wyoming join race for supercomputer center

BOULDER – Two more states have entered the ring to join three Colorado schools competing for the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s proposed $75 million supercomputing center.

Institutions in Oklahoma and Wyoming are being considered among the possible partners for the new 60,000-square-foot NCAR center, said Lawrence Buja, co-lead of the project at NCAR.

“We’re getting interest from both inside and outside of the state,” Buja said. He declined to say whether the two other states had recently offered proposals, or if they have been in the running from the start. He also did not reveal which institutions in Oklahoma and Wyoming…