Performance
Blue Waters runs science and engineering code at sustained speeds of at least one petaflops, or one quadrillion floating point operations per second.
Matthew Humphries for Geek.com writes "As for storage, there will be 500 petabytes available and 300Gbps wide area connections. The file system running on this storage will be the Cray Lustre parallel file system, which is capable of terabyte-per-second storage bandwidth."
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