Located at the National Petascale Computing Facility on the University of Illinois campus, the Blue Waters Supercomputer is one of the most powerful computers in the world and is open for the public to experience and enjoy. Finalised in 2013, Blue Waters is a sustained petascale Cray supercomputer built from the latest technologies and capable of more than 13 quadrillion calculations per second. The computer is used by engineers and scientists around the world to tackle a wide range of challenging problems, from simulating the evolution of the cosmos to predicting the behavior of complex biological systems.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at 1205 W. Clark St., Urbana, Illinois. Phone: 217-244-6689

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