Computerworld (June 2) -- The Texas Advanced Computer Center has received $30 million in U.S. funding for a new supercomputer that will roughly double the performance of its existing 9-petaflop supercomputer. The largest academic system is the Cray Blue Waters system at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois. It is capable of 13.5 petaflops peak performance, but is not ranked on the Top 500 list.