Blue Waters - world’s first petascale supercomputer costing around $208 million
If you’ve been thinking that those dual-core or quad-core processors of the servers in your office are super powerful, you’ll get a shock after hearing how many cores that the processor of the Blue Waters has… 200,000
The Blue Waters will cost around $208 million and have up to 2-petaflops processing speed, more than a petabyte (1015 bytes) of memory and a 10 petabyte disk storage system. All these are massive figures - the first supercomputer that is at the petascale.
The Blue Waters are to be built by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and they’ve finalized the contract with IBM to build the world’s first sustained petascale computational system.
The Blue Waters are great for hard science researches which need super high computational power such as simulating the Sun’s coronal mass ejections, studying black holes, and molecular biology. Blue Waters will come online in 2011, which should be accessible nationally, at campus-level.
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