IBM cuts ties with NCSA’s Blue Waters Caleb Curtiss August 9, 2011 - 2:23pmJanuary 27, 2022 - 11:13pm Effective August 6, 2011, IBM terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to provide the supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications’ Blue Waters project. Here’s NCSA’s side of things. Here’s another perspective.