Both the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and IBM have quoted unexpected costs and greater than expected difficulties among motives for abandoning plans to make a petaflop-speed supercomputer this Monday.  A petaflop, for those who are curious, is a measure of the processing speed of a computer, that being a thousand trillion floating point operations each second – a computer with such speed abilities being reported in and of itself.  Having begun the project last 2008, IBM said that it has stopped its four-year “Blue Waters” agreement estimated at around $208 million USD, formerly . . . → Read More: Petascale Supercomputer “Blue Waters” Project, Abandoned by IBM and NCSA