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Simultaneously developing Blue Waters and the facilty to house it has afforded unprecedented opportunities for synergy between machine and facility. Access' Barbara Jewett chatted with IBM Fellow Ed Seminaro, chief architect for Power HPC servers at IBM, about this synergy as well as some of the unique aspects of the Blue Waters project.
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What will scientists do with Blue Waters?
Many scientists are working now with the Blue Waters team so they are ready to use the massive sustained-petaflop supercomputer when it comes online in 2011. These teams will use Blue Waters to improve our understanding of tornadoes, earthquakes, the spread of contagious diseases, the formation of galaxies, the behavior of molecules and more.
Modeling improves aircraft design
Paul Fussell, senior manager for Applied Mathematical Modeling at Boeing, describes how Boeing uses high-performance computing in aircraft design.
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