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New Details Surface On Blue Waters Supercomputer Split

New Details Surface On Blue Waters Supercomputer Split

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - by Joel Hruska in News
Last month, we discussed the split between IBM and the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) over the highly ambitious 'Blue Waters' project. Blue Waters was the name of a planned supercomputer that would've been entirely water-cooled and included as many as 524,288 CPU cores. The disintegration of the... Read More
After Years of Work IBM, NCSA, Cancel "Blue Waters" Supercomputer

After Years of Work IBM, NCSA, Cancel "Blue Waters" Supercomputer

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - by Joel Hruska in News
Four years ago almost to the day, the National Science Board handed the National science Foundation a mandate to build the most powerful petaflop-class supercomputer in the world. The NSF announced in turn that the system would be based on IBM's Power7 processor technology. One of the features that won IBM the contract... Read More