IBM Pulls the Plug on Blue Waters

Data Center Knowledge (Aug 9 2011)

1. In a surprise statement Saturday, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ (NCSA) and IBM jointly announced that IBM has terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to provide the supercomputer for the NCSA’s Blue Waters project. NCSA says it is working with the National Science Foundation to ensure project continuity and that the goals of the project are achieved. “NCSA is confident that its goal of building a sustained-petascale supercomputer remains achievable in a timely manner,” it said.. (Read Full Article)

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