UI breaks ground on Blue Waters Data Processing Center
By Christine Des Garennes
Thursday November 6, 2008
Heather Coit
University of Illinois Board of Trustees Chairman Larry Eppley, left, talks with UI President B. Joseph White on Wednesday as work begins on the new Blue Waters Data Processing Center at the corner of Oak Street and St. Mary's Road in Champaign.
CHAMPAIGN – With excavators scooping dirt and dust flying a few feet away, University of Illinois officials and researchers on Wednesday celebrated the building of a facility that will eventually house the world's fastest computer.
"This is where, in many ways, supercomputing was born with the birth of ILLIAC IV," said Thom Dunning, director of the National Center for Supercomputing at the University of Illinois, referring to a previous supercomputer developed at the UI. "The circle's closing with the facility that we're building," he said.
The 95,000-square-foot Blue Waters Data Processing Center is being built at the northwest corner of Oak Street and St. Mary's Road in Champaign.
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