About the Blue Waters project

The Blue Waters supercomputer provides sustained performance of 1 petaflop on a range of real-world science and engineering applications. It is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Scientists and engineers across the country use the power of Blue Waters to tackle a wide range of challenging problems, from predicting the behavior of complex biological systems to simulating the evolution of the cosmos.

Blue Waters is composed of more than 237 Cray XE6 cabinets and 32 cabinets of the Cray XK7 supercomputer with NVIDIA® Tesla® Kepler™ GPU computing capability. Visit the Blue Waters portal for more details of the system's hardware and capabilities.

Blue Waters is supported by the National Science Foundation and the University of Illinois.

The Blue Waters project also includes a far-reaching educational and workforce development program. It impacts students from K-12 through postgraduate education, reaching out to geographical areas and communities that have been historically underrepresented in supercomputing. At the undergraduate level, the program educates the next generation of graduate students, K-12 teachers, future technical staff, and the informed public. At the graduate and postgraduate levels, the program educates and trains the next generation of researchers.

For more information, contact Trish Barker, 217.265.8013.

For documentation and user information, visit the Blue Waters portal.