Blue Waters project newsletters

December 2012
Contents: One Year Later: Delivering Sustained Petascale Science: Installation; Scaling; Testing; SPP test; Friendly users / Assessing sustained performance

May 2012
Contents: Visualization team works with early science data / Blue Waters Early Science System / BW-ESS Pioneers / See pictures of Blue Waters / Educating students in HPC / Illinois data center rated LEED Gold / NCSA's Hoefler honored

January 2012
Contents: Thom Dunning: Transforming computing / The Cray Blue Waters system / GLCPC aids education, other efforts / Watch Blue Waters' installation! / New PRAC teams cover many disciplines

March 2011
Contents: 'People's lives are affected': Climate research coming to Blue Waters / Developing software and applications for extreme-scale computing / More PRAC teams announced / Blue Waters featured in The Chronicle / GLCPC board meets in May

December 2010
Contents: Chemists hope to solve essential problems / Simulations Summit focuses on industrial competitiveness / Blue Waters libraries / DOE INCITE awards include Blue Waters staff, collaborators / NCSA staff attend NSF HPC workshop / Blue Waters staff, partners bring home awards from SC10 / GLCPC busy with many activities / User Group meets at SC10

September 2010
Contents: Blue Waters Interconnect / Undergraduate Institute Prepares Students to Integrate Computer Science, Other Research Disciplines / When Tornadoes Strike / GLCPC Outlines Goals for Coming Year / More than 1,000 Visit New Supercomputing Facility / Brown Elected President of GLCPC Board / Events of Interest

April 2010
Contents: PRAC Teams Plan to Learn More about Deep Earth / Integrated Systems Console / Graduate Student Advisory Council / Registration Open for VSCSE / Application Performance Modeling / IBM Launches POWER7 / NCSA visits GLCPC for Petascale Presentations / Instruction Modules Sought/ Events of Interest

January 2010
Contents: IBM Provides Details on Blue Waters / Research Teams Win PRAC / Collaborative Software Development Projects / Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation / Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing / Events of Interest