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GM buys 10 IBM Computers to form supercomputer-WSJ

NEW YORK, Aug 29 (Reuters) - IBM Corp. said General Motors Corp. is buying 10 of its high-performance Unix computers with a plan to link them together to form one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Thursday.

The deal is a sign of the growing importance of high-powered computing in designing automobiles, a sector that is producing strong sales for IBM amid an overall slump in corporate purchases of information technology, the Journal reported.

Company officials were not immediately available for comment and the Journal reported that they would comment on the deal's value.

IBM will handle significant services work installing the computers and meshing them together with 13 similar systems previously bought by GM and some of it units, the Journal reported.

GM will use the IBM supercomputer for a range of simulations from crash tests to noisiness, and said the new system will quadruple its supercomputing capacity, the Journal reported.