4/9/2019 10:40:47 AM
Crain's Chicago Business -- Argonne National Laboratory will spend more than $500 million to build the world's fastest supercomputer. The new machine, Aurora, will be the first to operate at exascale. Supercomputers are innovation engines and talent magnets, says Bill Kramer, an Illinois CS professor and senior associate director of the Blue Waters Project at NCSA. NCSA Director Bill Gropp added that "We are confident that Illinois will continue to be a leader in applying advanced computing."