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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. Read more about the teams using Blue Waters.

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.

For more information, contact Trish Barker, 217.265.8013.

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

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