Ive heard about a new supercomputer called “Blue Waters.” What is it and what makes it special?
A. Blue Waters is a project supported by the National Science Foundation that is under way at the University of Illinois in collaboration with IBM and partners across the country. While today’s supercomputers typically perform trillions of calculations every second, Blue Waters will deliver 1 quadrillion calculations every second (a measure known as 1 petaflop).
