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University of Illinois Ponies Up $208 Million for New Supercomputer

But the world's fastest supercomputer is not exactly speeding its way to its new home.

But the world's fastest supercomputer is not exactly speeding its way to its new home.

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This month the University of Illinois announced plans to buy, install, and use Blue Waters, a petaflop supercomputer to be built by Armonk, NY-based IBM Corp.

But this ain’t like calling up Dell and ordering up a PowerEdge. The Blue Waters supercomputer won’t be up and running until 2011.

Hopefully Blue Waters will be worth the wait, as it is four times faster than Blue Gene/L, another IBM machine that is reportedly today’s fastest machine.

Once installed, Blue Waters is expected to work on climate modeling, the origins of the universe, and other perplexing problems.

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