What is "blue waters"

n. (blue water English)

Blue Waters is a petascale supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On August 8, 2007, the National Science Board approved a resolution which authorized the National Science Foundation to fund "the acquisition and deployment of the world's most powerful leadership-class supercomputer." The NSF awarded $208 million for the Blue Waters project.

On August 8, 2011, NCSA announced that IBM had terminated its contract to provide hardware for the project, and would refund payments to date. Cray Inc. then was awarded a $188 million contract with the University of Illinois to build the supercomputer for the Blue Waters project; the supercomputer was installed in phases in 2012.

Blue waters or Bluewaters may refer to:

• Blue waters, the global deep oceans
• Blue Waters, an American supercomputer
• Blue Waters, Christ Church, Barbados, a populated place in the parish of Christ Church, Barbados
• Blue Waters F.C., a Namibian football club
• Bluewaters Island, Dubai, UAE