In addition to JGU, also involved in the project are the Technical University of Madrid and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain, the French National Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (Inria), the Foundation for Research and Technology in Greece, Seagate Systems in the UK, the German Climate Computing Center, CA Technologies Development in Spain, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), and Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH. (sciencedaily.com)
The Blue Brain and Human Brain Project will take a new step with a Blue Gene / Q augmented by 128 terabytes of flash memory at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center in Lugano, Switzerland. (scientificamerican.com)
Joseph Lombardo, executive director of UNLV's National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment, put those FLOPS in perspective for us: A scientist with a handheld calculator would need 159,000 years of nonstop calculating to match a single second of the Cherry Creek supercomputer. (unlv.edu)