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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:50
dmolnar (dmolnar@hcs.harvard.edu)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 13:52:55 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Bruce Schneier wrote:
> Didn't some government agency recently install a massively parallel
> computer, with a few thousand Pentium Pros. Does anyone remember stats on
> that computer?
Off the top of my head, that sounds like Sandia Laboratories' ASCI
Option Red. A web search turned up :
The Option Red system will contain 9000 Pentium Pro processors in 4500
compute nodes with a theoretical peak performance of 1.8 Tflop/s. At
this moment a measured performance of 1.068 Tflop/s has been realised
out of 1.453 Tflop/s on 7264 processors ([4]) in the solving of a
linear system of order 215,000. The system is of the DM-MIMD type with
a network that resembles that of the Intel Paragon XP but at a higher
speed: the point-to-point bandwidth has a maximum of 400 MB/s and the
bisectional bandwidth of the full system should be 50 GB/s.
The system harbours two cooperating operating systems: the Paragon OS,
as used in the present Paragon machines and Light Weight Kernel system
that should optimise task handling at the nodes.
from
http://draci.its.uow.edu.au/pdg/netlib/utk/papers/advanced-computers.0
/asci-intel.html
also showed info from Intel at
http://developer.intel.com/technology/itj/q11998/articles/art_1o.htm
-David
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