About Blue Waters

The Blue Waters project provides systems and support for petascale science and engineering. The Blue Waters supercomputer - one of the most powerful systems in the world - achieves sustained performance of 1 petaflop on a range of science and engineering codes and offers more than 25PB of usable storage. View complete system specs

Blue Waters is supported by the National Science Foundation. Scientists, engineers, educators and companies can apply to use Blue Waters. For more information, visit the Allocations page.

The Blue Waters project also includes education and training activities and engagement with industry.

Find out more about the science and engineering impact of the Blue Waters project at https://bluewaters.ncsa.illinois.edu/impact-overview.

Questions? Contact help+bw@ncsa.illinois.edu.