Selected appearances of Blue Waters in the media are presented.
2013
- 10/3/13 HPCwire: TOP500 Founder Erich Strohmaier on the List's Evolution
- 9/26/13 WGN News: Climate Change Experts tell Tom Skilling "There really isn't another side to this" (video)
- Summer 2013: Journal of Healthcare Information Management: Not Your Father's Data Warehouse: How Supercomputers are a Clinical Analytics Game Changer (page 29 of PDF)
- 8/21/13 News-Gazette: Loren Tate: Howdy, freshman (also on The Telegraph)
- 8/15/13 Beckman Institute: Blue Waters: A Sea of Possibilities
- 8/2/13 HPCwire: Blue Waters Supercomputer Upgraded to 13 Petaflops
- 7/8/13 InsideHPC: Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at the Milky Way Supercomputer (video)
- 7/4/13 CNET: With Blue Waters, supercomputing goes national
- 6/27/13 InsideHPC: How Xyratex and Cray Delivered the World's Fastest and Most Efficient File System
- 6/17/13 Daily Illini: UI supercomputer Blue Waters decodes HIV capsid
- 6/13/13 The Seattle Times: Supercomputer company Cray expands its reach
- 6/3/13 Data Center Knowledge: Blue Waters Supercomputer Gets 380 Petabyte Storage System
- 6/3/13 TechWeek Europe: Scientists Use Nvidia GPU-Powered Supercomputer in HIV Research Breakthrough
- 6/3/13 HPCwire: Researchers Tap Cray Super to Decode HIV-1 Interior
- 5/29/13 Scientific Computing World: Cracking the HIV Code: Up-close View of the Enemy
- 5/29/13 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pitt study may lead to drugs to combat HIV
- 5/29/13 Gizmodo: How a Supercomputer May Have Finally Unlocked a Way to Beat HIV
- 5/29/13 HPCwire: Blue Waters Seals Off with Tape
- 5/29/13 CNET: Blue Waters' supercomputer helps crack HIV code
- 5/29/13 Mother Nature Network: Supercomputer tries to crack mystery of HIV structure
- 5/29/13 Nature World News: Study of HIV Virus Using Supercomputer May Unveil New Ways to Prevent AIDS (video)
- 5/29/13 News Talk Florida: Scientists Crack HIV Coding, Leading to Possible AIDS Cure
- 5/29/13 InsideHPC: GPUs Help Researchers Uncover New Approach to Combating HIV Virus
- 5/29/13 Popular Science: Computer Creates Atom-By-Atom Model of HIV Shell
- 5/29/13 Bio-IT World: Research Characterize Chemical Structure of HIV Capsid
- 5/29/13 HPCwire: Breakthrough in HIV Research Enabled by NVIDIA GPU Accelerators
- 5/29/13 NSF: Cracking the Code of HIV; Providing an Up-Close View of the Enemy
- 5/28/13 NSF: Long-term Federal Investments Improve Severe Weather Prediction
- 5/24/13 Science World Report: Let's Accelerate Scientific Progress by Bringing Supercomputing to Every Lab
- 5/22/13 HPCwire: NSF Forges Further Beyond FLOPs
- 5/8/13 InsideHPC: Lessons Learned from the Blue Waters 1 Terabyte/sec File System (video, also on HPCwire)
- 5/7/13 HPCwire: Cray Answers Mid-Market's Call
- 5/7/13 HPCwire: Extermination at Extreme Scale
- 5/5/13 The Daily Illini: Supercomputer Blue Waters launches, aids several researchers
- 5/3/13 HPCwire: Blue Waters: Security at Scale
- 5/2/13 Precision Ag Technology: The Wide Open Road
- 4/25/13 International Computer Science Institute: Using ICSI's Open-Source Bro Platform to Protect the Blue Waters Supercomputer
- 4/24/13 HPCWire: Researchers Using Blue Waters to Understand Global Precipitation
- 4/23/13 Penn State: Researchers using supercomputer to improve satellite precipitation observation
- 4/16/13 InsideHPC: Video: Blue Waters and Resource Management -- Now and in the Future
- 4/15/13 WILL: Focus...on Blue Waters (Bill Gropp interview)
- 4/11/13 InsideHPC: Lustre User Group 2013: Innovation through Collaboration
- 4/10/13 iSGTW: Blue Waters enables groundbreaking computational science
- 4/9/13 WBEZ 91.5 Chicago: Afternoon Shift #288: Brass tax, U of I supercomputer
- 4/5/13 Scientific Computing World: Blue Waters signals new wave in supercomputing
- 4/2/13 R&D Magazine: Blue Waters open for research
- 4/2/13 Data Center Knowledge: Blue Waters Supercomputer Debuts At 11.6 Petaflops
- 4/1/13 The Daily Illini: Grand opening of Blue Waters
- 3/31/13 InsideHPC: Blue Waters Time-lapse Construction Plus Launch Ceremony
- 3/31/13 The News-Gazette: Liftoff for Blue Waters
- 3/30/13 HotHardware: Most Powerful University Supercomputer Now Cranking Around The Clock
- 3/29/13 HPCwire: Blue Waters Is Open for Research
- 3/29/13 The News-Gazette: UI officially launches Blue Waters
- 3/29/13 Chicago Business Journal: University of Illinois supercomputer Blue Waters promises to better model the world
- 3/29/13 Engadet: University of Illinois' Blue Waters supercomputer now running around the clock
- 3/29/13 The Daily Illini: University supercomputing project launches
- 3/28/13 WAND-TV: Blue Waters Supercomputer running 30 projects
- 3/28/13 The Wall Street Journal: Demand Surges for Supercomputers
- 3/28/13 WBEZ 91.5 Chicago: New supercomputer Blue Waters at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign may help predict the weather
- 3/28/13 HPCwire: NSF Official On New Supers, Data-Intensive Future
- 3/28/13 WCIA: UI is home to Blue Waters
- 3/28/13 Crain's Chicago Business: Will Blue Waters be the last federally funded supercomputer in Illinois?
- 3/27/13 The News-Gazette: Blue Waters' official launch set
- 3/27/13 Fox News: Long-delayed Blue Waters supercomputer at University of Illinois among world's most powerful
- 3/27/13 Redeye Chicago: U of I supercomputer debuts at 11.6 quadrillion calculations per second
- 3/27/13 The Daily Herald: U of I supercomputer running after project doubts
- 3/26/13 The Chicago Tribune: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign supercomputer up and running
- 3/22/13 InsideHPC: Blue Waters Ready to Handle Floods of Data
- 3/22/13 HPCwire: Great Lakes Consortium Awards Access to Blue Waters Supercomputer to 10 Projects
- 3/20/13 HPCwire: Assembling Blue Waters
- 3/6/13 HPCwire: Blue Waters Supercomputer on Display March 9
- 2/28/13 HPCwire: Blue Waters, XSEDE Host Extreme Scaling Workshop 2013
- 2/27/13 HPCwire: How to Explain Your Job to Your Kids
- 2/25/13 Foreign Commonwealth Office: The Biggest Computer I've Ever Seen, and Why Sometimes 0 and 1 Just Ain't Enough
- 2/22/13 Daily Illini: UI professor to use new supercomputer to simulate tornadoes
- 2/6/13 InsideHPC: U.S./China Team Determines Structure of Virus with Blue Waters
- 2/5/13 HPCwire: Four Applications Sustain One Petaflop on Blue Waters
- 1/31/13 InsideHPC: NCSA Announces Initial Apps Running at Petascale
2012
- 11/16/12 HPCwire: Blue Waters Opts Out of TOP500
- 11/8/12 HPCwire: Blue Waters Supercomputer Enters Friendly-User Phase
- 10/16/12 Data Center Knowledge: Blue Waters Supercomputer Prompts Petaflop Party
- 10/16/12 The Daily Illini: Petascale Day celebrates computing in the quadrillions
- 10/15/12 Datanami: Feeling Blue on Petascale Day?
- 10/15/12 WCIA Channel 3: UI Celebrates Petascale Day
- 10/12/12 Information Management: Big Data, Meet the Huge Data That Will Shape Your Future
- 9/27/12 InsideHPC: Initial Tests of Blue Waters Super Excite Scientists
- 8/8/12 Research.gov: NSF Supercomputer Begins Science Journey
- 7/16/12 George Mason University: Mason Researcher Awarded Time on NSF's Most Powerful Supercomputer
- 6/12/12 HPCwire: Cray Expands Narrative on Blue Waters Supercomputer and Company's New Storage Business
- 5/24/12 ComputerWorld: Supercomputer to connect to 400PB of storage via Ethernet
- 4/11/12 International Science Grid This Week: Blue Waters gets going
- 4/5/12 InsideHPC: First Simulation Images from Blue Waters Super
- 3/29/12 The Daily Illini: Despite incomplete status, Blue Waters yielding discoveries
- 3/26/12 Geek.com: Blue Waters supercomputer comes online using 48 Cray XE6 cabinets
- 3/21/12 Scientific Computing: NSF's Most Powerful Computing Resource Opens Doors to Six Science Teams
- 3/21/12 HPCwire: Researchers Begin Using Blue Waters Supercomputer
- 3/7/12 The Daily Illini: Blue Waters: UI's ‘latest gift to humanity'
- 3/5/12 The Daily Illini: Blue Waters begins running this week as scientists work to refine powerful system
- 1/31/12 The News-Gazette: Cray delivers first Blue Waters components
- 1/31/12 TechEye: Work started on Blue Waters supercomputer
- 1/30/12 The Chronicle of Higher Education: Stalled ‘Hubble Telescope of Supercomputers' Resumes Construction
- 1/28/12 The Chicago Tribune: University of Illinois supercomputer installation to start (also appeared in The Verge, The Seattle Times, The Kewanee Star Courier, KFVS (Carbondale), WLS (Chicago), Appleton Post Crescent, Green Bay Press Gazette, The Columbian, WREX (Rockford), MyNorthwest, The Republic (Columbus, Indiana), KWQC, TriCity Herald, WAND, WHBF, KHQ, Bellingham Herald, The Belleville News-Democrat, KNDO)
- 1/10/12 Data Center Knowledge: Blue Waters Data Center Achieves LEED Gold
2011
- 11/14/11 Forbes: Cray Gets $188 Million Supercomputer Deal; Shares Spike
- 11/14/11 The News-Gazette: Cray Inc. replacing IBM to build UI supercomputer
- 11/14/11 The Register: Cray lands $188m Blue Waters NCSA contract
- 11/14/11 The Wall Street Journal: Cray to Take On Supercomputer After IBM's Exit
- 11/14/11 Reuters: Cray wins $188 million deal to build supercomputer, shares up
- 11/14/11 Fox.com: IBM Replacement Found for New U.S. Supercomputer
- 1/14/11 Information Management: NCSA Picks Cray for Supercomputer
- 11/14/11 HPCwire: NCSA Signs Up Cray for Blue Waters Redo
- 11/14/11 The Washington Post: University of Illinois says Cray Inc. to take over stalled Blue Waters supercomputer project
- 11/1/11 Science: Skies Clear for Troubled Machine Being Built at Illinois Center
- 8/18/11 The Chicago Tribune: IBM returns $30M to U. of I. for abandoning supercomputer project
- 8/17/11 The News-Gazette: IBM returns $30 million to UI over Blue Waters
- 8/9/11 engadget: IBM and NCSA end their Blue Waters affair, go back to just being supercomputing friends
- 8/9/11 Popular Science: IBM Mysteriously Halts Work on the World's Fastest Academic Supercomputer
- 8/9/11 ZDNet: IBM pulls out of petascale computing contract
- 8/9/11 PC Magazine: IBM Pulls Out of Supercomputer Contract
- 8/9/11 Information Management: IBM Pulls Out of World's Fastest Computer Project; NCSA looking for another vendor to get Blue Waters petascale supercomputer done by 2012
- 8/9/11 TIME: So Long Petaflops Supercomputer: IBM and NCSA Sink 'Blue Waters'
- 8/8/11 The Washington Post: ‘Petaflop' computer flap: IBM unplugs itself from supercomputer project at Univ. of Illinois (Also appeared in Independent Online, Manufacturing.net, Triangle Business Journal, Times of India, Deccan Herald, Northwest Herald (McHenry County, Ill.), Sydney Morning Herald, Jakarta Globe, The Chicago Tribune, WAND, The Pantagraph, STLToday, Belleville News-Democrat, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fox.com, The Daily Herald, Sacramento Bee, Macon Telegraph, Sioux City Journal, Chicago Sun-Times, Contra Costa Times)
- 8/8/11 The Chronicle of Higher Education: IBM Abruptly Withdraws From Effort to Build Fastest Academic Supercomputer
- 8/8/11 HPCwire: IBM Bails on Blue Waters Supercomputer
- 8/8/11 The News-Gazette: IBM drops out of Blue Waters project
- 5/12/11 HPCwire: Inside the National Petascale Computing Facility
- 4/3/11 The Chronicle of Higher Education: Supercomputers Let Up on Speed
- 2/9/11 Next Big Future: The United States will have three ten petaflop or faster supercomputers in 2012
- 1/16/11 The Chicago Tribune: U of I gets more than $90M for supercomputer
- 1/16/11 The News-Gazette: Supercomputer, other projects bring in major funds to UI
2010
- 11/20/10 ComputerWorld: California's earthquake risk spurs supercomputing efforts
- 11/19/10 ReadWriteWeb: Teaching Students Computing at the Petascale Level
- 11/11/10 InsideHPC: Blue Waters at NCSA to Topple Tianhe-1A Next Year
- 11/11/10 HPCwire: US in Line to Win Back Supercomputing Title in 2012
- 11/9/10 MIT Technology Review: And The World's Fastest Supercomputer in 2012 Is…
- 9/13/10 Quad-Cities Online: Science of Blue Waters takes his breath away
- 8/26/10 ECE Illinois: FROM ECE TO IBM AND BACK: ALUMNA WORKS ON CHIP FOR BLUE WATERS SUPERCOMPUTER
- 8/16/10 HPCwire: TeraGrid 2010 Keynote: Attendees Peer into Blue Waters
- 7/7/10 Data Center Knowledge: Inside the National Petascale Computing Facility
- 6/24/10 Data Center Knowledge: Blue Waters: Awesome Power, Awesome Efficiency
- 6/17/10 WILL: Focus…on The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the National Petascale Computing Facility at the University of Illinois
- 5/25/10 GigaOm: Unboxing Goes High Performance at the National Petascale Computing Facility (also appeared in IndustryAnswer, Interobs.com, Tech News, Technoded, daylife, Yotify, TechKive, TechNews.AM, Salon)
- 4/29/10 GenomeWeb: Researchers at the ready for Blue Waters
- 4/5/10 HPCwire: Scientists Prepare for Blue Waters
- 1/5/10 WILL: Researchers Start Lining Up for Blue Waters
2009
- 12/17/09 Data Center Knowledge: Blue Waters and the Supercomputing Frontier
- 12/16/09 The Economic Times: Blue Waters supercomp to help in scientific discoveries
- 12/10/09 HPCwire: What Will Scientists Do with Blue Waters?
- 12/8/09 Green Data Center Blog: Projected PUE 1.18 for NCSA Blue Water Data Center
- 10/19/09 HPCwire: RIT Scientists Use Supercomputers to 'See' Blackholes
- 10/15/09 HPCwire: NCSA, Blue Waters Team Partner w/ New Researchers
- 6/17/09 International Science Grid This Week: Coming: Sustained petascale computing for open science
- 4/5/09 The News&Observer: To reinvent science education, he's enlisting all ages
- 3/4/09 NetworkWorld: What applications would you run on a $208M petascale supercomputer?
- 2/14/09 Science Mode: ‘Petascale computing' may improve storm predictions, AAAS Annual Meeting speakers report
2008
- 11/6/08 The Daily Herald: Work starting on U of I's supercomputer building
- 11/6/08 The News-Gazette: UI breaks ground on Blue Waters Data Processing Center
- 11/5/08 The Chicago Tribune: Work starting on UofI's supercomputer building
- 11/3/08 The Chronicle of Higher Education: U. of Illinois Starts Construction of Sustainable Supercomputer Center
- 10/8/08 University of Illinois College of Engineering: Blue Waters: Powering new discoveries
- 9/24/08 The Daily Illini: University receives grant to construct fastest supercomputer
- 9/2/08 Network World: Massive $208 million petascale computer gets green light
- 8/27/08 HPCwire: Petascale project Blue Waters gets green light
- 7/26/08 University of Illinois Mechanical Science and Engineering Department: Student Design Team Helps Save $2 Million a Year in Utility Costs
- 7/2/08 Zerodowntime: Blue Waters: a computational leviathan
