{"id":31234,"date":"2011-08-09T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=31234"},"modified":"2011-08-09T17:54:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:54:42","slug":"ibm-leaves-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/31234-ibm-leaves-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-project.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM leaves world&#8217;s fastest supercomputer project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The university&#8217;s National Center for Supercomputing Applications and IBM said in a brief statement Monday that IBM terminated its contract. IBM said the computer had grown more expensive and technically demanding than anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>The NCSA said it still plans to pursue a petascale computer in what it called &#8220;timely manner&#8221; and is working with the National Science Foundation. Petascale refers to the speed of the computer and means it could perform a thousand trillion mathematical operations a second.<\/p>\n<p>IBM was chosen in 2007 to build Blue Waters. The computer was initially due to go online this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Corp. is leaving a project at the University of Illinois to build the world&#8217;s fastest supercomputer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":31236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,835,3540],"class_list":["post-31234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-ibm","tag-university-of-illinois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31238,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31234\/revisions\/31238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}