National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Building toward Blue Waters

NCSA has several systems that are being used as stepping stones for the sustained petaflop system that will come online in 2011.

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Behind Blue Waters, volume 3

Senior Associate Director John Melchi gives a tour of the Illinois Petascale Computing Facility. This state-of-the-art data center will be home to Blue Waters -- the world's first sustained-petascale supercomputer for open scientific research -- and to future extreme-scale systems for decades to come.

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