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Illinois faculty and staff can request time on Blue Waters supercomputer


Blue Waters is one of the world’s most powerful computing systems and is located here at Illinois. Each year more than 3 million node-hours are allocated to projects from our campus. Each node has many powerful cores, providing University faculty and staff significant computing power. Proposals are accepted twice per year, the next deadline September 15, 2017. More information can be found at: https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/illinois-allocations.

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