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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]
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]
Simplifying Paperwork Frees Foster Care Staff To Put Clients First
White Papers ASCI) staff members spend handling paperwork and other routine tasks, the more time they can devote to helping their clients. The agency's IT new network coordinator recognized that ASCI could operate more efficiently using Microsoft Office...
[October 31, 2006, 23:00]
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]
HP Dominates Supercomputing Leaderboard
News Second and third place were occupied by two identical HP systems called ASCI Q at Los Alamos National Laboratory that now have been combined into one with a 14 teraflop speed. A Linux Networx system with 2,304 Xeon processors at sister lab Lawrence...
[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 Two segments of HP's ASCI Q system, built as part of the Energy Department's Advanced Simulation and Computing program to substitute computer calculations for full-fledged nuclear tests, took the second and third spots in the ranking.
[November 15, 2002, 8:21]
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]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Said fellow points out that while it is indeed impossible to export one of IBM's ASCI parallel processing superduperputers to the Forces of Evil yet totally possible for the FoE to buy the processors separately, this won't do the FoE much good...
[August 28, 2001, 18:18]
Linux Company To Work On Supercomputer
News The work will be geared to meet the demands of the Energy Department's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), work that's been going on since the mid-1990s to simulate nuclear-weapons tests.
[August 29, 2001, 10:27]
Mac Cluster Rises In Supercomputing Ranks
News That puts it behind only Japan's Earth Simulator, at 35.8 teraflops, and the ASCI Q supercomputer, at 13.8 teraflops. ASCI Q, a Hewlett-Packard machine running on 8,192 Alpha chips, is ranked No.at 13.8 teraflops.
[October 31, 2003, 13:10]
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]
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]
Sun Sets On 150,000 Planets (and A Prediction For Two Days' Time)
Blog The first teraflops computer is widely agreed to have been ASCI Red, which hit its full speed of 1.3 TFLOPS in June 1997. Over here, Business Week reports that Sun has failed to get through to the next round of the American defence agency DARPA's...
[November 22, 2006, 0:18]
