Author: Les Fernandez
Date: 05:03:37 08/10/01
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On August 10, 2001 at 02:16:26, pavel wrote: >On August 10, 2001 at 02:12:10, pavel wrote: > >>probably slightly offtopic, >> >>http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/top500/top500.list.html >> >>this site contains top 500 lists of supercomputers, ranked based on Linpack >>benchmark. >> >>kinda interesting (atleast to me). >> >>:) >> >>pavs... > ><snip> > >RS/6000 "ASCI White" Capable of 12 Trillion Calculations Per Second--Exceeds >Performance Called for in Contract by 23% > >Poughkeepsie, N.Y., June 29, 2000. IBM today announced that the company has >built the world's fastest supercomputer--capable of 12 trillion calculations per >second--more than three times faster than the most powerful computer in >existence today. Known as ASCI White, the RS/6000 SP supercomputer covers an >area the size of two basketball courts and will be used by the U.S. Department >of Energy (DOE) program to help ensure the safety and reliability of the >nation's nuclear weapons stockpile without real-world testing. > >In testing just completed at IBM facilities in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ASCI White >demonstrated a record computational capability of 12.3 teraflops (trillions of >operations/second)--exceeding the performance requirements of IBM's pioneering >contract with the DOE by 23%. The system is scheduled to be fully installed at >the DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California by the end of the >year. The Laboratory is operated for DOE by the University of California. > > ><snip> > >Anyone has any idea about the differance in processing power of this_giant and >deep_blue ? > >really curious!! > >pavs... Hi Pavs, Strictly from a speed point of view the above computer is approxiamtely 50,000 times faster then the hardware that was used in the Deeper Blue hardware! Les
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