ASCI Blue Mountain

ASCI Blue Mountain

ASCI Blue Mountain is a supercomputer that is installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The computer was a collaboration between Silicon Graphics Corporation and Los Alamos Lab. It was installed in 1999.

It is a cluster of ccNUMA SGI Origin 2000 systems. It contains 6,144 MIPS R10000 microprocessors. Its theoretical top performance is 2.5 teraflops.

It was built as a stage of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) started by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build a simulator to replace live WMD testing following the moratorium on testing started by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993. It was unveiled (commissioned) in 1998.

External links

* http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/direct/newsletter5/node33.html [http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/direct/newsletter5/node33.html]
* http://www.nitrd.gov/pubs/blue00/asci.html [http://www.itrd.gov/pubs/blue00/asci.html]


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