Today NCSA is collaborating with IBM, under a grant from the National Science Foundation, to build "Blue Waters," a supercomputer capable of performing 1 quadrillion calculations per second, a measure known as a petaflop.
Today NCSA is collaborating with IBM, under a grant from the National Science Foundation, to build the world's fastest supercomputer. This supercomputer, named "Blue Waters," is due to come online in 2011 and aims to be capable of performing 1 quadrillion calculations per second, a measure known as a petaflop.