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| Sponsors | US NSF and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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| Operators | Cray Inc. |
| Location | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Architecture | 49,000 AMD CPUs 237 Cray XE6 cabinets 44 Cray XK7 cabinets |
| Operating system | Cray Linux Environment |
| Memory | 1.5 PB |
| Storage | 26.5 PB, 1.1 TB/s Sonexion storage array |
| Speed | 13.3 PetaFLOPS |
| Purpose | Scientific research |
| Website | bluewaters |
Blue Waters was a petascale supercomputer operated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On August 8, 2007, the National Science Board approved a resolution which authorized the National Science Foundation to fund "the acquisition and deployment of the world's most powerful leadership-class supercomputer." The NSF awarded $208 million for the Blue Waters project.
On August 8, 2011, NCSA announced that IBM had terminated its contract to provide hardware for the project, and would refund payments to date.[1] Cray Inc. then was awarded a $188 million contract with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to build the supercomputer for the Blue Waters project; the supercomputer was installed in phases in 2012.[2] It operated until December 31, 2021, and was replaced by the Delta project in April 2022.[3]
- ^ Feldman, Michael (August 8, 2011). "IBM Bails on Blue Waters Supercomputer". HPCWire. Archived from the original on September 28, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
- ^ Wood, Paul (November 14, 2011). "Cray Inc. replacing IBM to build UI supercomputer". The News-Gazette. Archived from the original on November 1, 2020. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
- ^ Morgan, Timothy Prickett (2023-07-11). "NCSA Builds Out Delta Supercomputer With An AI Extension". nextplatform.com. Retrieved 2024-07-30.