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Re:10 petaflop supercomputer in the making, will take US bac... by jmtame on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @11:30PM (#1916882)
i was really excited when they started construction on the building that houses those machines. it's finished now, but i was able to attend the less than glamorous pre-open house* =]

* http://bit.ly/dkJiaZ, http://bit.ly/9mEo2e

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Re:10 petaflop supercomputer in the making, will take US bac... by sparky on Thursday November 18, 2010 @12:10AM (#1916965)
It's much cooler now, but access is more restricted. I think you can still get tours if you arrange ahead of time http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/AboutUs/tour.html . If you do, if you look really hard in the far corner of the room you might spy the little Top500 machine I worked on this fall.
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