Re: Large parallel computers

Andreas Bogk (andreas@andreas.org)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:47:03 -0500

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Bruce Schneier <schneier@counterpane.com> writes:

> Didn't some government agency recently install a massively parallel
> computer, with a few thousand Pentium Pros. Does anyone remember stats on
> that computer?

If I'm not entirely mistaken, you're talking about the ASCI Red at the
Sandia labs. Stats are available at:

http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/top500/top500.list.html

"Research" probably means virtual nukes.

Andreas

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