With New Graphics, Supercomputer “Mira” has Brains and Beauty

PLAINFIELD, IL—April 25, 2013—Working with Argonne National Laboratory, Signs By Tomorrow of Plainfield produced and installed a 65-foot-long, full-color graphics wrap for Mira, one of the largest and fastest supercomputers in the world.

Mira has 20 times the processing power and is five times more energy efficient than its predecessor Intrepid, and was constructed by IBM for the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) with the support of the United States Department of Energy. Mira is being used to address the most challenging problems in science and engineering today, exploring wide-ranging issues related to energy and the environment. In November 2012, Mira was named the fourth-fastest supercomputer in the world by TOP500.org, a semi-annual list compiled by leading computing industry experts.