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James H. Cloos Jr. (cloos@jhcloos.com)
08 Mar 1999 12:11:04 -0600
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>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com> writes:
Bruce> Didn't some government agency recently install a massively parallel
Bruce> computer, with a few thousand Pentium Pros. Does anyone remember stats on
Bruce> that computer?
A good place to look for info on publicly documented supercomputers is
<http://www.top500.org>, the list of the top 500 supercomputer sites.
The one I rpesume you are thinking of is at Sandia National Labs, has
9152 Ppro/200/512s, is named ASCI Red and is at the head of that list.
Sandia also has a box named XP/S140 with 3680 Intel CPUs dating from
'93. Oak Ridge National Lab has XP/S-MP 150 with 3072 Intel µps
dating from 1995.
Cf <http://www.sandia.gov/ASCI/Red.htm>.
ASCI, incidently, is the US Department of Energy's Accelerated
Strategic Computing Initiative, according to that web site.
It seems that the 9152 µp number was due to a stated goal of one
terraflop; ASCI Red peaks at 1.3.
Apparently its purpose is to run the computer models designed to
replace live nuclear testing.
Some other references:
DOE Press Release <http://www.doe.gov/html/doe/whatsnew/pressrel/pr96178.html>
Intel's page: <http://www.ssd.intel.com/tflop.html>
ASCI: <http://www.sandia.gov/ASCI/>
ASCI Red Users Guide: <http://www.sandia.gov/ASCI/Red/UserGuide.htm>
- -JimC
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