Big Blue Flexes Supercomputing Muscle
News The pair will declare ASCI White open for business during a dedication ceremony to be held at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. ASCI White, which packs 8,192 IBM Power3 processors and 160 terabytes of disc storage...
[August 15, 2001, 9:21]
IBM Delivers Europe's Biggest Supercomputer
News IBM's forthcoming Blue Gene/L, which Sanchez said will be more powerful than the current list of Top 500 supercomputers put together when it is finished in a couple of years' time, will be significantly smaller than current IBM supercomputers such...
[February 19, 2004, 15:54]
IBM Releases Supercomputer Details
News Blue Gene/L will be large, but significantly smaller than current IBM supercomputers such as ASCI White, a nuclear weapons simulation machine at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which will also be the home of Blue Gene/L.
[May 8, 2003, 12:03]
IBM Debuts Commercial Supercomputer
News IBM said the ASCI White computer, which is 30,000 times faster than the average personal computer, is a commercial version of a machine sold to the US Department of Energy last month to simulate nuclear weapons tests.
[July 24, 2000, 12:21]
TETRA Or GSM-ASCI Network For Public Safety: Let The Users Decide
White Papers The proposed enhancements are known as the ASCI Features (Advanced Speech Call Items) and were originally included in the GSM standards for railway radio communications purposes, then known as GSM-R. This white paper has been produced by the TETRA...
[July 9, 2007, 0:00]
Blue Gene/L Beats Own Speed Record
News The "Purple" comes from a mixture of red, white and blue: ASC Purple was intended to be the culmination of the series of ASCI Red, White and Blue supercomputers built at Sandia, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories.
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
HP Dominates Supercomputing Leaderboard
News A Linux Networx system with 2,304 Xeon processors at sister lab Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was remeasured at 7.6 teraflops, enough to move it past ASCI White, an IBM machine also at that lab.
[June 23, 2003, 9:20]
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]
HP Moves Up In Supercomputer List
News The new systems, being built at Los Alamos National Laboratory, bumped IBM's ASCI White two spots down the list. Two segments of HP's ASCI Q system, built as part of the Energy Department's Advanced Simulation and Computing program to substitute...
[November 15, 2002, 8:21]
Seti's Boinc Project Hit By DDoS Attack
News Five years after its launch, Seti has cost about $500,000, but the project has produced more raw computing power than a 12 teraflop IBM ASCI White system, which would normally cost about $110m. The University of California's distributed-computing...
[July 29, 2004, 10:10]
IBM Stays Top Of The Supercomputer League
News The machine is an extension of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative that has paid for the top-ranked machine, IBM's ASCI White, also at LLNL. They'll be stacked 1,000 at a time into refrigerator-sized cabinets that will together occupy...
[November 9, 2001, 12:07]
HP Dents IBM Supercomputer Dominance
News The fastest machine on the list is IBM's ASCI White, a nuclear-weapons simulation machine at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. IBM has seized six of the top ten spots in a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers, but Hewlett-Packard's new...
[June 21, 2001, 9:31]
Sun Funds Seti@home
News The Seti@home project has so far cost $500,000, but on a daily basis it provides the equivalent of 15 TeraFLOPS (million billion floating point operations per second) -- more raw computing power than a $110m IBM ASCI White system, rated at 12...
[December 17, 2003, 13:20]
IBM Loses Supercomputer Crown
News An IBM system called ASCI White, No.on the earlier list, is No.on the new list. Supercomputer experts have released a more sophisticated ranking of the world's brawniest computers, and the new order has toppled IBM from the top spot.
[November 29, 2001, 8:42]
IBM To Build Power4 Supercomputer
News IBM is the dominant supercomputer maker, and its ASCI White nuclear weapons simulation machine tops the list of the world's fastest. IBM has inked a deal to provide what it says will be one of the 10 largest supercomputers.
[July 23, 2001, 10:01]
NEC Is King Of The Supercomputers
News The computer beats out IBM's ASCI White computer with 8,192 processors by a wide margin. A supercomputer in Japan that ties together 5,120 processors has widened its lead as the world's most powerful computer under a revised series of tests from...
[May 17, 2002, 11:07]
China Launches First Supercomputer
News After that comes IBM's Asci White, which can operate at 7.26 teraflops. China achieved a major advance in its technology ambitions as computer vendor Legend Group launched the country's first world-class domestic supercomputer.
[September 2, 2002, 8:57]
