First scientific petabyte computer planned
IBM has singed a deal to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system dedicated to open scientific research.
Dubbed Blue Water, the computer system is being built for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
It will go live by 2011 and will use more than 200,000 processor cores, more than a petabyte of memory and more than 10 petabytes of disk storage. “Blue Waters will be an unrivaled national asset that will have a powerful impact on both science and society," said Thom Dunning NCSA director and a professor of chemistry at Illinois.
