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Article: IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS PART OF $208 MILLION SUPERCOMPUTER PROJECT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 18, 2008
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Iowa State University issued the following news release:
Iowa State University researchers will be part of a research consortium helping to develop the world's most powerful supercomputer.
That machine will deliver sustained performance of a quadrillion calculations per second. That kind of speed and power is called a "petaflop" in computing circles.
The National Science Foundation is supporting the supercomputer project with a $208 million grant. The project is led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Thom Dunning, the director of the NCSA, is directing the project.
The IBM-built machine will be called "Blue Waters" and ...