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	IBM to build fastest supercomputers \| CNET News.com
		ASCI Purple, due to be running by the end of 2004, is expected to have 196 interconnected 64-processor servers, making a total of 12,544 Power5 chips.
		As for physical size, ASCI Purple will weigh about 197 tons, be linked to 119 miles of optical cable and 28 miles of copper cable, and occupy 8,900 square feet of floor space--or about two basketball courts.
		ASCI Purple--named after the color resulting from a mixture of red, white and blue--was to be the pinnacle of the program, with a target of 100 teraflops.
	news.com.com /2100-1001-966312.html (971 words)

	IBM lands DOE deal for fastest supercomputers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The ASCI Purple system is being built for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, for which IBM has also built the supercomputers ASCI White, unveiled in August 2001, and ASCI Blue Pacific, unveiled in October 1998.
		The ASCI Purple will be 8 times faster than the ASCI White computer, which was itself ranked as the world's fourth most powerful supercomputer earlier this month by the Top 500 supercomputer list.
		ASCI Purple will be delivered in stages between now and 2005 with the first IBM computer server arriving next year, IBM said.
	www.itworld.com /Comp/1437/021118ibmdoe/search.html (277 words)

	NewsMine.org - ibm asci purple.txt
		ASCI Purple and Blue Gene/L will be the fastest and most powerful machines built, with a combined capacity equal to the 500 best of today’s computers.
		ASCI Purple, which will be built first and used to simulate nuclear tests, will be able to complete 100 thousand billion calculations per second — a speed known as 100 teraflops that some scientists say is comparable to the human brain.
		ASCI Purple will be built using 12,544 IBM Power5 microprocessors, the same chips that are used in Apple PCs and Nintendo games systems.
	newsmine.org /archive/security/bigbrother/tech/ibm-asci-purple.txt (458 words)

	Wired News: This Is Your Computer on Brains
		ASCI Purple will have 50 terabytes (trillion bytes) of memory; Morvec estimates a brain to have a 100-terabyte capacity.
		ASCI Purple will be powered by 12,544 microprocessors contained in 196 individual computers interconnected via a super-fast data highway that exchanges information at 100 gigabytes, the equivalent of 14 full-length DVD movies, every second.
		ASCI Purple will be built over the next year and installed in a dedicated building known as the Terascale Simulation Facility currently under construction at the Livermore lab.
	www.wired.com /news/infostructure/0,1377,56459,00.html (733 words)

	NewsFactor Network \| IBM To Build Fastest-Ever Supercomputers for U.S.
		ASCI Purple, with 100 teraflops of computing power, will be the DOE's primary supercomputer for its Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative, or ASCI.
		When ASCI Purple is completed in the second half of 2004, it will be composed of more than 12,000 IBM Power5 processors, contained in 196 individual computers, called nodes.
		ASCI Purple follows earlier IBM supercomputers ASCI White, delivered in August 2001 with 12.3 teraflops, and ASCI Blue Pacific, released in October 1998 with 3.8 teraflops.
	www.newsfactor.com /perl/story/20027.html (909 words)

	The ASCI Purple Benchmarks
		Although a great deal of effort has been employed to ready these codes for use in the ASCI Purple RFP and to be highly portable, these codes may not be in final form.
		For the ASCI Purple RFP, the intent of these benchmarks is to measure the execution performance and compiler capabilities of proposed Early Deployment of Technology Vehicle (EDTV) systems as described in Attachment 2, Statement of Work.
		However, the ASCI Purple Benchmark suite is divided into three Tiers in order to provide the relative priority of each benchmark.
	www.llnl.gov /asci/platforms/purple/rfp/benchmarks (807 words)

	Forbes.com - Magazine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The new computer, called ASCI Purple, will be seven times more powerful than ASCI White, the IBM system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, that holds the top spot in the current list of the world's top 500 supercomputer sites.
		The key to ASCI Purple will be off-the-shelf Power 4 processors, chips that IBM plans to introduce next year with clock speeds exceeding 1 gigahertz.
		When it's not virtually blowing things up, ASCI Purple may be used to improve weather forecasting, as well as for genetic research.
	www.forbes.com /2000/11/04/1104supercomp_print.html (972 words)

	A new, super-human level of computing power?
		The computers will be affectionately named "ASCI Purple" and "Bluegene/L", and will purportedly have processing capabilities of 100 Teraflops and 360 Teraflops, respectively (and many reports are making much of the fact that some scientists believe the computing power of the brain is around 100 Teraflops, nevermind the AI).
		ASCI Purple is the machine the bomb physicists have been waiting for, said Bruce Goodwin, a physicist who directs the nuclear weapons program at the Livermore lab.
		Purple is slated to be used as it is constructed, with a tentative date of 2005 for completion.
	arstechnica.com /news/posts/1037760147.html (594 words)

	WhatTheyThink.com - Print's Home Page
		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.
		ASCI Purple will be delivered in stages with the first IBM eServer systems arriving next year.
		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.
	members.whattheythink.com /news/newslink.cfm?id=8682&printer=pr (1219 words)

	IBM wins $290 million DOE contract for supercomputers \| InfoWorld \| \| 2002-11-19 \| By Ed Scannell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		ASCI Purple will be the world's first system capable of producing 100 teraflops or close to being three times faster than the most powerful computer in operation today, IBM officials said.
		The ASCI system, which will be powered by some 12,544 of IBM's Power5 microprocessors, will have a self-discovery feature that will enable it to locate and register thousands of components in the system, which will free up system administrators from to pursue other tasks.
		ASCI Purple's Power 5 chips will be able to detect and recover from errors without an administrator's assistance.
	www.infoworld.com /article/02/11/19/021119hnasicpurple_1.html (1303 words)

	From kilobytes to petabytes in 50 years
		The ASCI White, with power to perform 12 trillion operations per second, was delivered to the Laboratory during the summer of 2000.
		The ASCI program is developing a series of ever more powerful, massively parallel supercomputers that employ thousands of processors working in unison to simulate the performance of weapons in an aging nuclear stockpile.
		Through ASCI and the coming generations of supercomputing machines, another era appears on the horizon, an era in which enormously fast and powerful supercomputers will allow computer simulation to come into its own as a predictive science along with theory and experiment.
	www.eurekalert.org /features/doe/2002-03/dlnl-fkt062102.php (2890 words)

	Guild Companies--Blue Gene/L: A Big, Bad Linux Box
		ASCI Purple will be comprised of 196 64-way Squadron servers using dual-core Power5 processors, probably running at 2 GHz.
		When the ASCI Purple deal was announced in late 2002, some information about the Blue Gene/L machine also leaked out, even though IBM didn't intend for this to happen.
		ASCI Purple will cost $1.90 per gigaflops, and while this is a big improvement over the ASCI White parallel supercomputer IBM built for DOE a few years back (which is rated at 12.3 teraflops and which cost a little over $8 per gigaflops), Blue Gene/L only cost 28 cents per gigaflops.
	www.itjungle.com /mid/mid033104-story05.html (1412 words)

	IBM Inks $290M Supercomputer Contract
		ASCI Purple will serve as the primary supercomputer in the DOE's Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative, or ASCI.
		Boasting 50 terabytes of memory and two petabytes of storage, ASCI Purple will be powered by 12,544 of IBM's forthcoming POWER5 microprocessors, which features more than 10GB per second memory bandwidth, contained in 196 individual computers and interconnected via a data mainline that exchanges information at 100 GB per second.
		ASCI Purple will be delivered in stages with the first IBM eServer arriving next year.
	boston.internet.com /news/print.php/1503211 (582 words)

	IBM makes $290 million supercomputer pact
		ASCI Purple will run production codes for three-dimensional simulations of weapons systems, said Mark Seager, Livermore's assistant department head for terascale systems.
		The Purple system will use 12,544 IBM Power 5 microprocessors and have 50 terabytes of main memory, 100 gigabytes per second of I/O bandwidth and 2,000 terabytes —; or 2 petabytes —; of disk space, Seager said.
		ASCI Purple represents the summit of the technological road map that Energy Department officials laid out for the ASCI stockpile stewardship program seven years ago.
	www.washingtontechnology.com /news/1_1/daily_news/19561-1.html (402 words)

	New Supercomputers Will Improve Nuke Test Simulations - News by InformationWeek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Energy Department is spending $290 million on the ASCI Purple and Blue Gene/L supercomputers.
		The ASCI Purple will serve as the primary supercomputer in the department's Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative (ASCI), using 12,544 IBM Power5 processors and the Unix-based AIX operating system to simulate the aging and operation of U.S. nuclear weapons.
		The ASCI Purple can handle the same set of equations in two months, he says.
	www.informationweek.com /story/IWK20021119S0004 (433 words)

	Energy announces $290 million supercomputer pact
		One, dubbed ASCI Purple, will use the most recent IBM supercomputer technology to generate a theoretical peak performance of 100 trillion floating-point operations per second.
		ASCI Purple will run production codes for 3-D simulations of weapons systems, said Mark K. Seager, Livermore's assistant department head for terascale systems.
		ASCI Purple represents the summit of the technological road map that Energy officials laid out for the ASCI stockpile stewardship program seven years ago.
	www.gcn.com /online/vol1_no1/20546-1.html (443 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		Like so many of America's fastest computers, ASCI Purple will be used to simulate the explosions and decay of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without resorting to test detonations of the warheads.
		Significantly for IBM, the operating software and the interconnection of ASCI Purple's 12,500 processors are the same basic innards that power its P-Series mainframe computers, said Dave Turek, IBM's vice president of deep computing.
		Whether IBM's ASCI Purple becomes the first machine to knock NEC's Earth Simulator off the block remains to be seen.
	uttm.com /stories/2002/11/19/tech/printable530010.shtml (656 words)

	Blue Gene/L tops its own supercomputer record \| Tech News on ZDNet
		ASC Purple, originally called ASCI Purple, got the first part of its name from the Department of Energy's Advanced Simulation and Computing program, which was designed to guarantee that U.S. nuclear weapons would continue to work even as they age well past their intended life spans.
		The "Purple" comes from a mixture of red, white and blue: ASC Purple was intended to be the culmination of the series of ASCI Red, White and Blue supercomputers built at Sandia, Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories.
		ASC Purple had been due at the end of 2004, but the schedule was extended because of a move to a less expensive design.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9584_22-5918025.html (1155 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Technology -- IBM hopes to regain supercomputer title
		The computers – called ASCI Purple and BlueGene/Lite – will be delivered to the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., by 2005, Abraham said.
		ASCI Purple is designed to help government scientists study and maintain the U.S. nuclear stockpile without actually testing the weapons.
		When finished, ASCI Purple will run at a theoretical speed of 100 trillion calculations per second, the equivalent of 25,000 high-end personal computers and about 2½ times faster than the current fastest supercomputer in the world, NEC's Earth Simulator.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/computing/20021119-1339-ibm-supercomputerrace.html (332 words)

	IBM Flexes Its Supercomputing Muscles - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		ASCI Purple will consist of clusters of IBM servers linking thousands of the new chips.
		With a system like ASCI Purple, forecasters might start to unravel the myriad factors that go into a weather system, such as rain, wind and the temperature of land, water and air.
		But that system, which will use an entirely new kind of technology that puts memory on each processor, is not expected to be a reality for at least five years.
	www.forbes.com /2000/11/04/1104supercomp_2.html (730 words)

	IBM wins US Gov super computer deal \| The Register
		The first supercomputer (ASCI Purple) will be used to simulate the ageing and operation of US nuclear weapons.
		ASCI Purple (successor to IBM's ASCI White, and more than eight times more powerful) will be the world's first supercomputer capable of 100 teraflops - or almost three times faster than the most powerful computer in existence today, according to IBM.
		ASCI Purple will serve as the primary supercomputer in the US Department of Energy's Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative, commonly known as ASCI.
	www.theregister.com /2002/11/19/ibm_wins_us_gov_super (742 words)

	IBM finishes building ASCI Purple super for DOE - Computer Business Review
		The initial ASCI Purple specs called for the cluster to be comprised of 196 64-way Squadron servers using dual-core Power5 processors running in the vicinity of 2 GHz, with a total of 12,544 processor cores and using a daisy chain of IBM's "Federation" High Performance Switch (HPS) system interconnection switches to link them all together.
		Supercomputers like ASCI Purple are usually built in stages, starting with then-current technology and a subset of the hardware and gradually building up to the fully capable machine.
		The ASCI program was founded in 1995 to encourage computer makers to hit the 100 teraflops performance point in the 2004-2005 timeframe, but this goal is important not in the abstract.
	www.cbronline.com /article_news.asp?guid=948EF0BD-E854-4A6E-BC61-233280B893B3 (697 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The first system—called ASCI Purple—will offer the Department of Energy the world’s first supercomputer capable of up to 100 teraflops, more than twice as fast as the most powerful computer in existence today.
		ASCI Purple will consist of a massive cluster of POWER-based IBM ™ systems and IBM storage systems.
		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)

	U.S. Department of Energy orders 100 Tflop/s systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The first system, called ASCI Purple, will offer the Department of Energy the world's first supercomputer capable of up to 100 teraflops, more than twice as fast as the most powerful computer in existence today.
		ASCI Purple will serve as the primary supercomputer in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Simulation and Computing programme, commonly known as ASCI.
		The IBM and ASCI collaboration delivers the most reliable and cost-effective platform for the ASCI programme while exploring alternative technologies to accelerate the development of high performance systems.
	www.hoise.com /primeur/02/articles/weekly/AE-PR-12-02-68.html (974 words)

	Geek.com Geek News - IBM gets green for "Blue" and "Purple" supercomputers
		The second supercomputer to be built will be called "ASCI Purple" (ASCI stands for Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative), and will replace ASCI White in performing military computations, including the simulation of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
		ASCI Purple will be a great improvement over the current computer, with the ability to perform mathematical calculations 8 times faster then ASCI Blue.
		ASCI Purple is supposed to consist of 12,000 Power 5 chips, which are the next generation of IBM's PowerPC chips.
	www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2002Nov/gee20021120017384.htm (1254 words)

	Packet Systems News
		The first supercomputer, called ASCI Purple, will be used for simulation and modeling in the U.S. nuclear weapons mission.
		ASCI Purple will be powered by 12,544 POWER5 microprocessors, IBM's next generation microprocessor.
		ASCI Purple will also contain 50 terabytes of memory and have two petabytes of disk storage.
	www.convergedigest.com /PacketSystems/packetsysarticle.asp?ID=5638 (376 words)

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