IBM leaves University of Illinois fastest supercomputer project

Is IBM dropping out on another market?
First it dropped out of the PC market, leaving that to Lenovo, now the supercomputer market?

Seems Big Blue is fading away....
 
Read the article again. Dropping out of one project does not equal the supercomputer market.
 
devilfp said:
Too expensive?? But they supply the hardware?? :confused:
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Yes but they are being paid to supply the hardware. The payments they have received to date they will be refunding.

http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/system.html
The University of Illinois and NCSA selected IBM in 2007 as the supercomputer vendor for the Blue Waters project based on projections of future technology development. The innovative technology that IBM ultimately developed was more complex and required significantly increased financial and technical support by IBM beyond its original expectations. NCSA and IBM worked closely on various proposals to retain IBM's participation in the project but could not come to a mutually agreed-on plan concerning the path forward.

IBM will return money received to date and NCSA will return equipment delivered by IBM per terms of the contract.
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