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Blue Waters Project Office

Blue Waters Project
Petascale Science and Engineering
Computing System
Illinois Petascale Computing Facility
Education, Outreach and Training
Industry Partnerships
Project Office

The Project Office is responsible for management of the Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project, which is expected to be the most powerful computer in the world for open scientific research when it comes online in 2011.

Divisions and Groups

  • Computational System
  • Storage and Networking
  • System Software
  • Application Environments
  • PACTs
  • Application Support
  • Outreach and Education
  • Industrial Outreach
  • Petascale Computing Facility
  • Collaborative Projects
  • Project Controls

  • The team consists of:

    Cristina Beldica Cristina Beldica, program manager
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications


    Thom Dunning Thom H. Dunning, Jr., project director and principal investigator
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


    William Gropp William Gropp, co-principal investigator
    Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


    Wen-mei Hwu Wen-mei Hwu, co-principal investigator
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


    William Kramer William T.C. Kramer, deputy project director and co-principal investigator
    National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


    Marc Snir Marc Snir, co-principal investigator
    Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


    Contact the Blue Waters Consulting Office at bwconsult@ncsa.illinois.edu for more information.