Blue Waters

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Blue Waters is a petascale supercomputer system designed for large-scale scientific and engineering research, formerly operated at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf high-performance computing system
petascale supercomputer
supercomputer
acceleratorType NVIDIA Tesla data center GPUs
surface form: NVIDIA Tesla GPU
applicationDomain astrophysics
climate science
computational biology
engineering simulations
molecular dynamics
seismology
architecture Cray XE6
Cray XK7
campus University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
surface form: Urbana campus
country United States of America
surface form: United States
designedFor large-scale engineering research
large-scale scientific research
field high-performance computing
formerOperator National Center for Supercomputing Applications
fundedBy National Science Foundation
Illinois
surface form: State of Illinois

University of Illinois NERFINISHED
hostInstitution University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign NERFINISHED
locatedIn University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign NERFINISHED
manufacturer Cray Inc.
networkTopology 3D torus
operatedBy National Center for Supercomputing Applications
peakPerformance over 1 petaflop
primaryUse open scientific research
processorType AMD Opteron
status decommissioned
storageType parallel file system
supports large-scale data analysis
parallel computing
usedBy academic researchers
government researchers
industry researchers
usesGPU true

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