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Blue Waters: Keeping the focus on productivity
NCSA deputy director Rob Pennington discusses the Blue Waters project, which will build and deploy a computing system capable of delivering performance of 1 petaflop (1 quadrillion calculations per second) on a range of science and engineering applications.
Release date: 2008-11-18
William Kramer joins Blue Waters team at NCSA
Release date: 2008-11-13
NCSA workshop helps researchers prepare codes for Blue Waters
Release date: 2008-10-22
Building the data center of the future
Release date: 2008-10-07
Staying Competitive Through HPC: A National HPC Center Perspective
NCSA's director gives a perspective on "Staying Competitive Through High-Performance Computing," discussing the speed-ups possible with new technologies and the role NCSA's Blue Waters system will play in the petascale era.
Release date: 2008-09-16
Blue Waters to be featured on Big 10 Network
NCSA has produced a half-hour documentary on the Blue Waters project
that will appear on the Big 10 Network. "Blue Waters: Supercomputing
and Science" presents the history of high-performance computers at
Illinois, their future in systems like Blue Waters, and their impact
on society. For scheduling, see: http://www.bigtennetwork.com/schedule/.
Release date: 2008-09-04
Blue Waters: Supercomputing and Science
The National Science Foundation selected the University of Illinois, NCSA, IBM and partners around the country to build Blue Waters, the most-powerful computer for open scientific research.
Release date: 2008-09-02
University of Illinois, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, IBM, and partners to build first sustained petascale system for open scientific research
Release date: 2008-08-27
Blue Waters: Changing the way science is done
Until about the middle of the last century, science was really founded on two major premises. One was work in the laboratory, referred to as experiment; the other was work on discovering the underlying principles, theory. With the development of electronic computers in the 1950s, scientists began to realize there was actually a third mode of investigating the world around us: computational modeling.
Release date: 2008-08-11
The best things constantly change
With the National Science Foundation's funding of a sustained-petascale computer system, called Blue Waters, the high-performance computing community embraces on new challenges. Access' Barbara Jewett discussed some of the hardware and software issues with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Wen-mei Hwu, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Marc Snir, director of the Illinois Informatics Institute and former head of the university's computer science department.
Release date: 2008-08-11
Powering new discoveries
Researchers describe how the power of Blue Waters will advance their fields.
Release date: 2008-08-11
Simple, really
A nationwide team of collaborators, embodied in the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation, will back the Blue Waters petascale computing project.
Release date: 2008-08-11
Historic proportions
If history is any guide, Blue Waters will be a unique national asset for scientists around the country.
Release date: 2008-08-11
Infusing petascale thinking
Just as a petascale computer will dramatically change the world of high-performance computing, it also will set the education arena on its edge. Petascale computing will transform how computing as well as math and science are taught, from revamped materials to new courses to a virtual school.
Release date: 2008-07-08
Great leaps forward
How will petascale computing advance science and engineering? These researchers describe how their work will be transformed by the increased power that is on the horizon.
Release date: 2007-10-30
National Science Board Approves Funds for Petascale Computing Systems
Release date: 2007-08-07
