How Things Work: Super Computers

A visit to the NCSA Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The history of the super computing at the University is discussed and the calculating power of such machines are compared. The energy used in this one building is huge, and why it is needed. How the building is one huge air-conditioner. The insides and the racks upon racks of the computer are seen as well as the robot-driven tape storage. Under and over the computer is viewed and what it is used for discussed.

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