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Blue Waters will enable researchers to investigate challenging and heretofore impossible problems.
Blue Waters has been configured to solve the most challenging compute-, memory- and data-intensive problems in science and engineering. It has tens of thousands of chips (CPUs & GPUs), more than a petabyte of memory, tens of petabytes of disk storage, and hundreds of petabytes of archival storage.
Credit: NCSA/University of Illinois
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