Blue Gene/L Beats Own Speed Record
News ASC Purple, originally called ASCI Purple, got the first part of its name from the Department of Energy's Advanced Simulation and Computing program, which was designed to guarantee that U.S.nuclear weapons would continue to work even as they age...
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
Power5 To Add Brawn To Servers
News That machine, called ASCI Purple, is slated to use 12,544 Power5 chips. IBM has fired up a computer running IBM's forthcoming Power5 processor, a top IBM executive said on Monday, predicting that systems with the new chip will have four times the...
[February 18, 2003, 9:21]
IBM To Build Fastest Supercomputers To Date
News As for physical size, ASCI Purple will weigh about 197 tons, be linked to 119 miles of optical cable and 28 miles of copper cable, and occupy 8,900 square feet of floor space -- or about two basketball courts.
[November 19, 2002, 9:53]
IBM Wins Bid To Build Hybrid Supercomputer
News Los Alamos also houses earlier Big Blue behemoths such as ASC Purple, ASCI White and ASCI Blue Pacific. ASCI stood for the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, a federal effort to hasten supercomputing development to perform nuclear weapons...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
Big Blue Breaks 36 Teraflop Barrier To Take Supercomputing Speed Lead
News For those nuclear weapons simulations, IBM is building a system called ASCI Purple that uses a smaller number of more powerful computers that rely on IBM's Power5 processor. IBM claimed first place on Wednesday in a supercomputer speed competition...
[September 30, 2004, 10:55]
Powering Up Supercomputing
News ASCI Purple is our flagship product in this area. Tilak Agerwala, vice president of systems at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, is trying to take some of the pain out of supercomputing. In a variety of projects with various universities and...
[December 18, 2003, 13:30]
