Wired Campus: “A football-field-size computer room at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been sitting nearly empty for months, waiting for parts, in a stalled effort to build what researchers are calling the ‘Hubble telescope of supercomputers.’ IBM, the original supplier, abruptly withdrew from the project last summer just as it was to deliver racks of computer servers, forcing the university to shop for new parts for the unique project.”
Stalled ‘Hubble Telescope of Supercomputers’ Resumes Construction
January 31, 2012 by Eric V. LePage