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	SGI/Cray Research does ASCI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ASCI Blue Pacific is headquartered at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.
		The ASCI Blue Pacific contract was awarded to the IBM RS6000SP (3.0 peak teraflops).
		The ASCI Blue Pacific contract was awarded to the SGI/Cray Origin2000 (3.0+ peak teraflops).
	www.scd.ucar.edu /dig/cuglog/winter97/text/4.goldman.html (775 words)

	Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI)
		ASCI, the Department of Energy's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, was motivated by President Clinton's 1995 announcement of a true "zero yield" Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
		ASCI is to provide computational and simulation capabilities that can help scientists understand aging weapons, predict when components will have to be replaced, and evaluate the implications of changes in materials and fabrication processes.
		The industry partners are creating for ASCI computing platforms that bridge the gap between Giga-scale computing and the Tera-scale computing that is needed by the year 2010.
	www.ats.ucla.edu /rct/hpc/topics_in_hpc/asci.htm (1013 words)

	Blue Pacific adds power to Energy supercomputing
		Under the ASCI program, which aims to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without actual testing, IBM is building a second supercomputer, also destined for the Livermore lab, with 21/2 times the horsepower of Blue Pacific.
		Blue Pacific is a greatly expanded version of IBM’s RS/6000 SP Scalable PowerParallel supercomputer with 32-bit, 332-MHz IBM PowerPC 604e processors, said David Gelardi, IBM’s director of RS/6000 benchmarking and applications performance.
		ASCI White, now half-completed at the IBM plant in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., will have a 64-bit architecture and a new switching technology, code-named Colony, that is four times as fast as Blue Pacific’s interconnects, IBM’s Gelardi said.
	www.gcn.com /vol18_no36/news/930-1.html (607 words)

	SuperComputer Pacific Blue
		As Pacific Blue begins operation, IBM announced another even more ambitious supercomputing project: Blue Gene, which will study complex scientific issues ranging from human proteins to global climate change.
		To put the speed issues into perspective, Blue Gene will be 500 times faster than Blue Pacific and a thousand times faster than Deep Blue, the computer that beat Garry Kasparov in a world-class chess championship two years ago.
		While Pacific Blue will be dedicated to atomic bomb research, Blue Gene will study gene sequences and the complex shapes of human proteins to help scientists better understand diseases and uncover possible cures.
	www.compukiss.com /populartopics/gameshobbieshtm/article687.htm (281 words)

	MSN Tech & Gadgets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Blue Pacific, a souped-up version of a server marketed to data-intensive businesses, was brought to Livermore in October 1998 amid a squabble over whether it would become faster than a comparable machine from Silicon Graphics located at another lab.
		Blue Pacific can perform 3.9 trillion math calculations a second, a hair shy of its goal of 4 trillion.
		Blue Pacific employs 5,856 PowerPC 604E chips, but the brains in ASCI White will consist of 8,192 Power3-II chips, a model that uses IBM's copper interconnect technology.
	msn-cnet.com.com /2100-1040-232144.html (979 words)

	The ASCI machines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ASCI is intended to accelerate the develop of HPC with a view to modelling the US nuclear weapons stockpile and eliminating the need for nuclear weapons testing.
		ASCI Red is number one in the Top 500 with a sustained Linpack benchmark performance of just over 2 Tflop/s.
		ASCI is currently in its ``PathForward'' phase, the next phase of development for 1999-2001 to produce a machine in the 10-30 Tflop/s performance regime.
	www.epcc.ed.ac.uk /direct/newsletter5/node33.html (546 words)

	Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		That system, called ASCI White, may be the first to perform at a speed of ten teraflops, or ten trillion floating point operations per second.
		ASCI Blue was first installed at the lab in Livermore, Calif., two years ago, but it took until now to get it up to its designed speed of nearly four teraflops.
		Because the ASCI project is funded by U.S. Energy Department, ASCI Blue's main job is to simulate the aging process in the U.S. nuclear arsenal--to determine whether bombs made years ago would still work, and how time may have affected them.
	www.forbes.com /1999/10/28/mu7.html (698 words)

	PEZIZALES in the Pacific Northwest
		All cup-fungi are Ascomycetes and produce their spores within a sac-like cell (the ascus, pl. asci) which together with the hair-like filaments (the paraphyses), make up the fertile layer (the hymenium) that usually lines the interior or upper surface of the fruiting body.
		This diagnostic staining characteristic is also visible macroscopically by the blue staining of the hymenial layer of such fungi (seen best when a thin section of the apothecium is placed in a drop of IKI solution over a white background).
		Finally cotton or aniline blue in lactic acid or lactophenol can frequently be used to stain the ascospore sculpturing of many members of the group, although not all genera have spores that will take up this stain.
	www.svims.ca /council/Peziza.htm (12175 words)

	High-Octane Supercomputing A Technical Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Blue Mountain is based on the SGI Origin 2000 series, and Blue Pacific is in essence nothing more than an extremely large IBM SP2.
		Both ASCI Blue machines are under-performing their peak by about half, whereas the ASCI Red machine only loses about a quarter of peak performance.
		The ASCI project managers have, to their credit, recognized this problem with interprocessor communication (it was to the forefront when some networking-related OS design glitches caused the speed of Blue Pacific to be cut by 75% when running the most sophisticated network communication protocol available).
	math.arizona.edu /~jsac/supercomputing (6405 words)

	New TOP500 list of the most powerful computers in the world published (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Number one, is a machine build for the USA ASCI programme, the IBM ASCI White system with 4.9 Tflop/s of performance installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the USA.
		The Intel ASCI Red at Sandia, the former number one; the IBM ASCI Blue Pacific at LLNL, the SGI ASCI Blue Mountain at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
		ASCI is a programme to simulate the USA atomic stock pile.
	www.hpcn.nl /emailservice/contentsE-mailservice20001106.html (572 words)

	Slashdot \| World's Fastest Supercomputer to be Linux
		One of these machines is part of the ASCI contract (Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative) and is based on an Origin 2000 system.
		ASCI Blue Pacific, IBM's entry, is one of the most powerful computers in the world.
		ASCI Blue Mountain is an SGI Origin2000 machine.
	slashdot.org /articles/99/10/29/2011221.shtml (1562 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ASCI Purple will serve as the primary supercomputer in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Simulation and Computing program, commonly known as ASCI.
		Blue Gene/L will be used to develop and run a broad suite of scientific applications including the simulation of very complex physical phenomena of national interest, such as turbulence, prediction of material properties, and the behavior of high explosives.
		ASCI Purple will be delivered in stages with the first IBM systems arriving next year.
	www.ubm.com.jo /nw_news_desc.asp?news_id=39 (843 words)

	Henry M
		ASCI Red has two processors per node and, at the time, the only way to use the second processor to perform computational work was to spawn a separate thread.
		However, this is likely to change with the advent of massive threaded architectures such as that proposed by the IBM Blue Gene project.
		As the code’s performance was limited by processor-to-main-memory bandwidth (which is often the case on modern cache-base microprocessor architectures as this is significantly less than processor speed) the tuning effort revolved around increasing the ratio of floating-point operations to memory references.
	www-unix.mcs.anl.gov /~tufo/Research_Statement.htm (1558 words)

	Datamonitor ComputerWire - Top 500 Supers List Dominated By Exotic Clusters
		That machine would have come in behind the ASCI Red (2.4 teraflops), ASCI Blue Pacific (2.1 teraflops), and ASCI Blue Mountain (1.6 teraflops) parallel supers from Intel Corp, IBM Corp, and Silicon Graphics Inc that were funded by the U.S. government in the 1990s to fuel development of indigenous supercomputers with diverse architectures.
		IBM's Blue Gene/L super, which was build by Big Blue for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy, has doubled in size since the November 2004 rankings and now has a sustained performance of 136.8 teraflops.
		Blue Gene represents 37% of the installed IBM capacity on the list, but only 6% of the systems.
	www.computerwire.com /industries/research?pid=484EB4E0-9A52-49A8-ABEE-7D4DE602F893 (982 words)

	LANL Trip report 8/27 - 8/30 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ASCI ACL at LANL -- smaller machine for prototyping and learning on, and to be used sometimes together with Mountain Blue.
		If I remember correctly all three ASCI machines will be 3-4 teraflops, with 3-4 terabytes of memory, and tens of terabytes of secondary storage.
		The following is a summary of the ASCI Data Models and Formats Workshop held at Los Alamos National Laboratory on August 28th and 29th, 1996.
	hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu /internal/Trip_Reports_Folk/ASCI_trip_rept_8_96.html (2130 words)

	The Unix Guardian--Top 500 Supers List Dominated By Exotic Clusters
		That machine would have come in behind the ASCI Red (2.4 teraflops), ASCI Blue Pacific (2.1 teraflops), and ASCI Blue Mountain (1.6 teraflops) parallel supers from Intel, IBM, and Silicon Graphics that were funded by the U.S. government in the 1990s to fuel development of indigenous supercomputers with diverse architectures.
		Blue Gene represents 37 percent of the installed IBM capacity on the list, but only 6 percent of the systems.
		Number six is a Blue Gene box at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands rated at 27.5 teraflops, followed up by the "Thunder" Itanium 2 cluster built by California Digital for Lawrence Livermore, which is rated at 19.9 teraflops and which has the distinction of being the largest Linux-based cluster using Quadrics interconnections.
	www.itjungle.com /tug/tug062305-story02.html (1200 words)

	Prophecy Central: Modern Technology -2
		ASCI Q will be the size of five basketball courts, or more than 21,000 square feet.
		Yet Blue Gene, 40 times faster than the combined speed of the 40 fastest computers in the world today, will run an entire year to produce an answer for one protein.
		Blue Gene will be capable of more than one million, billion mathematical operations per second (one petaflop).
	www.bible-prophecy.com /technology2.htm (4630 words)

	ASCI Blue Pacific - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ASCI Blue Pacific is a supercomputer that is installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA.
		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. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993.
		This page was last modified 02:02, 11 July 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ASCI_Blue_Pacific (137 words)

	IBM to build world’s fastest supercomputers for U.S. Department of Energy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition to ASCI Purple, IBM also delivered Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s (LLNL) previous most powerful supercomputers—; ASCI White, unveiled in August 2001, and ASCI Blue Pacific, unveiled in October 1998.
		With the IBM self-discovery feature, ASCI Purple will be able to automatically locate and register thousands of components in the system, freeing administrators to do other tasks.
		The same self-managing and self-protecting technologies to be used in ASCI Purple will be available for businesses consolidating workloads in an effort to reduce costs, and implementing large parallel databases, e-commerce and business intelligence.
	www.ibm.com /servers/eserver/pseries/news/pressreleases/2002/nov/asci_purple.html (1180 words)

	Slashdot \| Top 500 Supercomputers
		These are the only three systems to exceed 1 TF/s on the Linpack benchmark, and represent 7.4 percent of the total Flop/s on the list.' The story notes that the average growth rates for the list exceed the number set by Moore's Law.
		Hell no, because if you had ASCI Red, you wouldn't have any apps that take advantage of its parallelism to run on it anyway.
		ASCI Blue is all new by Paul Boutin
	slashdot.org /articles/99/11/11/0826233.shtml (790 words)

	Tech Jamaica - Jamaica's Technology Portal Forums - Supercomputer Info
		Supercomputers that utilize message passing require routing to ensure the individual pieces of a message are routed from source to destination through the topology without creating hotspots (bottlenecks).
		The IBM Blue Gene system represents the next generation of advanced supercomputing technology.
		In addition to solving computational problems, Blue Gene should influence the way in which mainstream computers of the future are built.
	www.techjamaica.com /forums/showthread.php?t=844 (1202 words)

	Government is home to fastest supercomputers
		According to the Linpack linear-algebra benchmark, the Intel ASCI Red supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., edged out the IBM ASCI Blue Pacific at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. ASCI Red clocked 2.38 TFLOPS, and Blue Pacific hit 2.14 TFLOPS.
		Blue Pacific’s theoretical peak speed of 3.9 TFLOPS exceeded Red’s rating of 3.2 TFLOPS, however.
		Debuting on the list at No. 120 is the ASCI White prototype, an IBM machine that will have a theoretical peak speed of 10 TFLOPS when fully assembled.
	www.gcn.com /vol18_no37/news/1010-1.html (381 words)

	FLASH I/O benchmark routine -- parallel HDF 5
		Makefiles for the ASCI Red (TFLOPS) machine at SNL, ASCI Blue Pacific / Frost at LLNL, and SGI platforms are included.
		Blue is also very time dependent, so what works today may not work tomorrow.
		Blue Pacific has been upgraded to the Mohonk version of the IBM MPI library.
	www.ucolick.org /~zingale/flash_benchmark_io (1951 words)

	ASCI Blue Pacific can bring IBM on first position in TOP500 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The The Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has inaugurated its new ASCI Blue Pacific supercomputer developed with IBM.
		The DOE's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative - or ASCI - is a 15-year program designed to accelerate advancement of the technology necessary to numerically simulate nuclear devices eliminating the need for physical testing.
		In the next phase of the ASCI initiative, IBM will deliver a 10-Tflop/s RS/6000 SP to the DOE in mid-2000.
	www.hoise.com /articles/AE-PR-12-98-14.html (165 words)

	Info on Using ASCI Platforms
		ASCI Red, Intel's PentiumPro-based follow-on to the Paragon at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM
		ASCI Blue Mountain, an SGI/Cray Origin 2000 at Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, NM
		ASCI Blue Pacific, an IBM SP at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Livermore, CA
	www.csar.uiuc.edu /platforms (667 words)

	HPCProfile
		In early 1997 this ASCI Blue Pacific ID system became generally available for the LLNL user community at large.
		The ASCI Blue procurement made it a mandatory requirement that the contractor shall provide sufficient reqources to support independent concurrent [processing].
		The ASCI Blue Pacific System - despite its relatively straightforward continuation of the SP product line and leveraging of well-established commodity h/w and s/w components - comes with considerable challenges regarding engineering, system software and administration and applications enablement that require long-term commitment to the HPC user community around the world.
	www.dl.ac.uk /TCSC/HPCI/HPCProfile/nov97 (3369 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Instead, the interior of the blocks are extracted in the FORTRAN checkpoint/plotfile routines before passing to the HDF 5 calls Makefiles are provided will build the code on ASCI Blue Pacific at LLNL (Makefile.blue), ASCI Red at SNL (Makefile.red) and a local SGI, sphere (Makefile.sphere) using HDF 5 v.
		We typically carry 24 variables per zone, and fit about 100 blocks on each processor of Blue Pacific.
		The layout of unk is unk(nvar,2nguard+nxb,2nguard+nyb,2*nguard+nzb,blocks) where nvar is the number of variables nguard is the number of guardcells nxb, nyb, and nzb are the number of zones per block in x,y, and z and blocks is the maximum number of blocks to store.
	flash.uchicago.edu /~zingale/flash_benchmark_io/README (695 words)

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