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	List of IBM products - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IBM 740 — IBM 701/IBM 704/IBM 709 Cathode Ray Tube Output Recorder
		IBM 7300 — IBM 7070/IBM 7074 Disk Storage
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_IBM_products (2839 words)

	IBM Research \| Who we are \| History 2000
		The ASCI White is three times more powerful than the previous champ, IBM's ASCI Blue Pacific, and 1,000 times more powerful than "Deep Blue," the computer which defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997.
		IBM began shipping the world's clearest computer display -- 12-times sharper than current displays and 10 years sooner than industry experts said it was possible.
		IBM researchers are successfully running Linux and X11 (a popular graphics library) on a wrist watch-size device, demonstrating the viability of the operating system across all platforms, from large enterprise servers, to medium-sized and small servers, workstations, desktop systems, laptops and now the smallest intelligent devices.
	www.research.ibm.com /about/history_2000.shtml (954 words)

	ASCI Blue Pacific - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ASCI Blue Pacific was a supercomputer that was installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA.
		The computer was a collaboration between IBM Corporation and Lawerence Livermore Lab.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ASCI_Blue_Pacific (143 words)

	IBM Research \| Projects \| Blue Gene
		In order to achieve this groundbreaking speed in such a short time, IBM researchers are experimenting with ways to simplify traditional computer architectures, allowing chips to achieve performance improvements at a much faster pace than the current roadmap for today's chips.
		IBM researchers are calling their experimental new design "SMASH," which stands for Simple, Many, And Self-Healing.
		Just one of Blue Gene's processor boards (a two-foot by two-foot component) will be capable of two teraflops -- the same raw computational power as the ASCI Blue Pacific supercomputer that IBM installed earlier this year at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
	www.research.ibm.com /bluegene/bluegene_architecture.html (753 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Supercomputer to simulate bomb tests
		IBM said a human being armed with a simple calculator would need 10 million years to make the same number of calculations as ASCI White can perform in a single second.
		IBM's contract required the new machine to run at 10 teraflops, or 10 trillion operations per second, making it the first machine to exceed the double-digit teraflop speed barrier, a feat once thought impossible by computer scientists.
		IBM officials said that the new system could contribute to breakthroughs in financial models, genetic computing and allow a country to monitor national air space with a single machine.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/science/nature/812710.stm (557 words)

	The Namibian \| Supercomputer will be used to simulate nuclear tests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		ASCI White was built mostly from components of existing commercial computers, D'Onofrio said, and can do far more than just model nuclear explosions.
		IBM's Blue Pacific, now in use at Livermore, will soon be shared with the university research community.
		ASCI White has 8,192 microprocessors and is 1,000 times more powerful than "Deep Blue," which defeated chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997.
	www.namibian.com.na /Netstories/2000/June/Marketplace/008A74A8AC.html (701 words)

	IBM again tops supercomputer rankings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		IBM Corp. captured the number-one position, and six of the top 10, in a ranking released Thursday of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
		ASCI White, IBM's classified supercomputer used for nuclear weapons research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, was ruled the world's most powerful, followed by the company's machine at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), also in California.
		IBM officially announced delivery Thursday of the NERSC machine, capable of a theoretical peak of 3.8 trillion calculations per second, said Dave Gelardi, director of high performance computing at IBM.
	www.itworld.com /Comp/1437/IDG010621ibm/search.html (323 words)

	Computerwire - 20 November 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The original Blue Gene machine was announced with great fanfare at the end of 1999, with IBM promising to deliver a unique parallel supercomputer with 1 million processors and capable of delivering 1 petaflops (1 million gigaflops) of aggregate peak processing power.
		IBM's ASCI Blue Pacific machine, delivered in October 1998, was built from the RS/6000 SPs as well, but based on 5,808 of IBM's 32-bit PowerPC 604e processors.
		ASCI Purple was apparently given that name because when you mix red, white and blue - the colors of the American flag and the colors of the prior ASCI machines (provided you think of ASCI Q as a Big Red Q for Compaq) you get purple.
	www.euro-techforum.com /pooled/articles/BF_NEWSART/view.asp?Q=BF_NEWSART_45032 (2366 words)

	InfoSatellite.com - World´s fastest computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The ASCI project calls for a series of supercomputers -- 1, 3, 10, 30 and 100 teraflops in size -- to be built over a period of several years.
		The ASCI project aims to produce a computer that can simulate a nuclear explosion by 2005 and that is capable of doing not the present 12.3 trillion but 100 trillion calculations per second.
		IBM is not the only company involved in the race for the fastest computer in the world: Compaq is also working on a plan to deliver in two years a computer that does 30 trillion calculations per second.
	www.infosatellite.com /news/2001/08/a0801fastest_computer.html (825 words)

	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.
		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.
		IBM's other supercomputer, Blue Gene/L, is slated to perform more scientific research, including predicting global climate change and the effects of pollution on atmospheric changes.
	www.sci-tech-today.com /perl/story/20027.html (564 words)

	Forbes.com - Magazine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		In fact, ASCI White can crunch numbers faster than today's top four supercomputers combined (two made by IBM, including ASCI Blue, and one each from Intel intc (nasdaq: intc - news - people) and Silicon Graphics sgi (nasdaq: sgi - news - people).
		ASCI Blue will be decommissioned over time and turned over for unclassified scientific work.
		ASCI White is composed of RS/6000 SPs, which turn into supercomputers when you link them together.
	www.forbes.com /2000/06/29/mu6_print.html (1034 words)

	IBM lands DOE deal for fastest supercomputers
		IBM Corp. has secured a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), valued at between US$216 million to $267 million, to build two supercomputers, including the ASCI Purple, which is being billed as the first computer to top 100 teraflops, or 100 trillion calculations per second, IBM said Tuesday.
		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.
		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)

	The ASCI machines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		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)

	IBM Builds World's Most Powerful Computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		The ASCI White is also powerful enough to process an Internet commerce transaction for every person on Earth in less than one minute, industry analysts believe.
		That's three times more powerful than the previous champ, IBM's ASCI Blue Pacific, and 1,000 times more powerful than "Deep Blue," the computer that defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997, they added.
		IBM officials and analysts said parts of the design of ASCI White, which connects 512 separate computers together with high-performance switches and software, could be built into computers used for everything from electronic business to designing cars.
	www.newsmax.com /articles/?a=2000/6/29/95136 (402 words)

	IBM unveils new supercomputer - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
		When IBM ibm (nyse: ibm - news - people) dedicated its ASCI Blue-Pacific supercomputer Thursday at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, space was already being prepared for a bigger, faster computer that will be installed at the lab next June.
		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.
		IBM and Intel don't make a lot of money on supercomputers, which occupy a small market niche of companies and government agencies that can afford their multi-million dollar price tags.
	www.forbes.com /1999/10/28/mu7.html (866 words)

	WhatTheyThink.com - Print's Home Page
		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.
		The IBM and ASCI collaboration delivers the most reliable and cost-effective platform for the ASCI program while exploring alternative technologies to accelerate the development of high performance systems.
		IBM, the e-business logo, AIX 5L, and POWER5 are trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
	members.whattheythink.com /news/newslink.cfm?id=8682&printer=pr (1219 words)

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		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 (1557 words)

	IBM Research \| IBM Research \| Computer Architecture
		At its core, IBM is a computer company; and IBM researchers have made seminal contributions to the computer architecture field.
		IBM Research recently contributed to the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative's White and Blue Pacific supercomputers.
		IBM's Embedded Low-Power Digital Signal Processor project (eLite DSP), is advancing the state of the art in ultra-low power DSP architectures, design methodologies, and compilers.
	domino.research.ibm.com /comm/research.nsf/pages/r.arch.html (333 words)

	10e20 Website Design Latest News - IBM Inks $290M Supercomputer Contract
		Continuing its forward progress of building ultra-powerful machines for scientific organizations, IBM Corp. picked up a $290 million contract to build two supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that sport a combined peak speed of 460 trillion floating operations per second, or teraflops.
		IBM has also finished Livermore's previous most powerful supercomputers, ASCI White, unveiled in August 2001, and ASCI Blue Pacific, unveiled in October 1998.
		Blue Gene/L will be used by the three NNSA laboratories, Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore and the ASCI University Alliance collaborators as well as other DOE laboratories in the future.
	www.10e20webdesign.com /website_design_company_latest_news_november_20_ibm_inks_290_mil_supercomputer_contract.htm (579 words)

	Prophecy Central: Modern Technology -2
		ASCI Q will be the size of five basketball courts, or more than 21,000 square feet.
		To increase speed, IBM researchers decentralized the clock, using locally generated clocks to run smaller sections of circuits.
		Blue Gene will be capable of more than one million, billion mathematical operations per second (one petaflop).
	www.bible-prophecy.com /technology2.htm (4629 words)

	Computing milestone - Jun. 28, 2000
		IBM built the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative - White, or ASCI White supercomputer for the U.S. Energy Department, so it can accurately test the safety and effectiveness of the nation's aging nuclear weapons stockpile, the company said.
		The ASCI White, which weighs 106 tons and uses enough electricity to power a small town, is being shipped to the U.S. Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore Labs in California in 28 tractor-trailer trucks.
		ASCI white runs at 12.3 teraflops, or 12.3 trillion operations per second.
	money.cnn.com /2000/06/28/technology/ibm (602 words)

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		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 program, commonly known as ASCI.
		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)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		This one was judged the fourth most powerful in early June by groups at the University of Tennessee and the University of Mannheim in Germany that publish the rankings twice a year.
		The three ranked faster at that time were, No. 1, Intel's ASCI Red at Sandi National Labs in New Mexico, then IBM's ASCI Blue Pacific at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and SGI's ASCI Blue Mountain at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.
		But the list is likely to be revised and the new computer dropped down to fifth place at the next ranking, since IBM announced in late June that it had built the most powerful supercomputer in the world, able to perform 12.3 trillion operations per second.
	uttm.com /stories/2000/08/03/tech/printable221535.shtml (340 words)

	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is home to many of the most powerful computer systems in the world according to the TOP500 list, including Blue Gene/L the world's most powerful computer.
		The record performance was made at LLNL on the IBM Corp's BlueGene/L, the world's fastest supercomputer, which has 131,072 processors.
		The record was a milestone in the evolution of predictive science, a field in which researchers use supercomputers to answer questions about such subjects as; materials science simulations, global warming, and reactions to natural disasters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/LLNL (1946 words)

	SGI/Cray no longer dominates the TOP500 - IBM in the lead
		In the November 1999 release of the TOP500, the ASCI red machine at Sandia is still number one: Intel has replaced a number of processors with newer models, which was enough to keep the first place.
		Although in number, IBM is leading, in installed performance, SGI/Cray is leading with 19.5 Tflop/s of installed power.
		IBM has 13.7 and SUN 4.8 followed by Fujitsu with 2.9 Tflop/s.
	wissrech.iam.uni-bonn.de /misc/album/primeur/AE-PR-12-99-28.html?noframe (251 words)

	Lecture 23
		IBM was selected to build ASCI White, at LLNL, the next generation ASCI platform.
		A smaller version is Blue Horizon at San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC), available to a wider group.
		IBM Blue Gene, also Blue Gene/L at LLNL.
	www.cs.williams.edu /~terescoj/cs432_f02/lectures/23-future/23-future.html (1160 words)

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