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$208 Million Petascale Computer Gets Green Light
coondoggie writes "The 200,000 processor core system known as Blue Waters got the green light recently as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) said it has finalized the contract with IBM to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system.
Blue Waters is expected to deliver sustained performance of more than one petaflop on many real-world scientific and engineering applications. A petaflop equals about 1 quadrillion calculations per second. They will be coupled to more than a petabyte of memory and more than 10 petabytes of disk storage. All of that memory and storage will be globally addressable, meaning that processors will be able to share data from a single pool exceptionally quickly, researchers said. Blue Waters, is supported by a $208 million grant from the National Science Foundation and will come online in 2011."
nah, nevermind
I'm glad they've given it a green light.
Imagine having all that computer power, and not even knowing if it was switched on!
"Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
Come on now. Let's be serious. They're trying to play Crysis.
It will not run 32 bit linux, so of course, the admins in charge are going to bitch about the lack of adobe flash support.
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
in 40 years some kid will laugh at your pathetic attempt at geek coolness when you mention the Bluewater and say "wow your old..."
Forty more years of the kids saying "your"? Kill me now! :)
And quantum electroptical tomographics. See, I can make shit up, too...