CME Group is the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace offering the widest range of futures and options products for risk management. The exchange technology facilitates 4 Billion trades a year with a value of nearly $1.4 Quadrillion dollars. The data center is a 428,000 square foot facility served by separate power generation plants which deliver two 138,000-volt transmission utility services and 92MW of redundant power (184 MW of total power).
NCSA/NSF Blue Waters is one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. It can complete more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second on a sustained basis and more than 13 times that at peak speed. 88,000 square feet, 288 Cabinets, 13.34PF Peak Performance, 1.634 PB System Memory, 26 petabytes of useable online storage, 380 petabytes of usable nearline tape storage, and more.Come join us for a joint session with leading systems engineers from CME Group and the NCSA to learn about these two extreme data centers and how their different goals influenced different designs.