Re: Large parallel computers

Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 16:34:25 -0500

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Robert Hettinga wrote:
>
> At 10:09 AM -0500 on 3/8/99, 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?
>
> Wasn't it at Los Alamos, running a parallel version of Linux called Beowulf(?)?

Not sure if it ran Beowulf, but it was certainly for simulating nukes
(allegedly), so Los Alamos is a good guess.

BTW, did you know the Feynman ran nuke simulations with a room full of
people with calculators at Los Alamos?

Cheers,

Ben.

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