If you thought computers with large storage capacity couldn’t get larger, think again. IBM will build the world’s first computer that will use 200,000 processor cores and will have 10 petabytes of disk storage. The computer is called Blue Waters and is meant for national purposes for the amelioration of science and society and will be built for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The computer could help scientists to conduct research on new medicines, weather, technology, engineering, aviation—the possibilities are endless. Blue Waters will go live by 2011 and would bring in a totally different aspect to supercomputing and help scientists, engineers and commercial users to use these advanced systems.

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Via: ITNews