Items tagged with Blue Waters

by Ray Willington - Sat, Mar 30, 2013

Most Powerful University Supercomputer Now Cranking Around The Clock

Desktops may be losing steam as the segment gives way in some part to more mobile machines, but oddly, the largest desktops of all are seeing a huge uptick in attention. Supercomputers far and wide are becoming all the rage at institutions and educational facilities, as the world looks to plow more into science and... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Sep 27, 2011

New Details Surface On Blue Waters Supercomputer Split

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 deal came as some surprise,... Read more...

by Joel Hruska - Wed, Aug 10, 2011

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

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... Read more...