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	ASCI White - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ASCI White is a supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
		It is a computer cluster based on IBM's commercial RS/6000 SP computer, 512 of these machines are connected together for ASCI White, with 16 processors per node and 8,192 processors in total with 6 terabytes of memory and 160 terabytes of disk storage.
		ASCI White is made up of three individual systems, the 512 node White, the 28 node Ice and the 68 node Frost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IBM_ASCI_White (273 words)

	IBM eServer pSeries - ASCI White
		ASCI White is a 512-node RS/6000 SP, 1000 times more powerful than the "Deep Blue" supercomputer that defeated chess grand master Garry Kasparov in a celebrated 1997 match, and capable of solving in one second what a human being with a calculator would need 10 million years to figure out.
		ASCI White's technology has beneficial uses far in excess of its original mandate—medicine, aerospace and automotive design, weather forecasting, and online banking are just some of the fields in which it plays a major role.
		ASCI White's backbone is a system already in use by more than 100,000 commercial and technical customers around the world: RS/6000 servers.
	www.ibm.com /servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/largescale/supercomputers/asciwhite (435 words)

	IBM Research \| Press Resources \| IBM Ships World's Highest-Resolution Computer Display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		IBM is shipping the world's clearest computer display -- 12 times sharper than current displays -- 10 years sooner than industry experts said it was possible.
		IBM has also demonstrated the use of copper in experimental displays and plans to use copper in future display technologies.
		IBM is a registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corp. All other trademarks, registered trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.
	domino.research.ibm.com /comm/pr.nsf/pages/news.20001110_display.html (648 words)

	Wired News: IBM's Got A Big, Bad Computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		ASCI White is 1,000 times more powerful than Deep Blue, which generated 200 million chess moves every second to famously defeat World Chess Champion Gary Kasparov in May 1997.
		ASCI White is not one computer, but a massively parallel machine made from 512 of IBM's RS 6000 servers.
		ASCI White is hooked to a bank of imaging workstations that convert data from a simulation into a visualization of the detonation, which is projected onto a giant screen.
	www.wired.com /news/print/0,1294,37285,00.html (951 words)

	IBM ASCI White
		"ASCI White represents an important milestone in the development of computing technology, extending IBM's pioneering use of industry-standard building blocks to create supercomputers of immense power," said Surjit Chana, IBM vice president of high performance computing.
		Located in a classified area at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ASCI White covers a space the size of two basketball courts and weighs 106 tons.
		It has more than 160 Tb of IBM TotalStorage 7133 Serial Disk System capacity, or enough to hold six times the entire book collection of the library of Congress.
	www.thocp.net /hardware/asci_white.htm (215 words)

	CBS News \| IBM Announces Latest Supercomputer \| June 29, 2000 11:23:26
		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 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.
		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.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/06/29/tech/main210684.shtml (718 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.
		IBM's ASCI White, which was delivered to the Laboratory in three stages during the summer of 2000, is currently the world's most powerful computer.
		Box 4: The ASCI White, with power to perform 12 trillion operations per second, was delivered to the Laboratory during the summer of 2000.
	www.eurekalert.org /features/doe/2002-03/dlnl-fkt062102.php (2890 words)

	InfoSatellite.com - World´s fastest computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The RS/6000 SP, or simply, ASCI White, is capable of 12 trillion calculations per second and covers an area the size of two basketball courts.
		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)

	Forbes.com - Magazine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		IBM is bringing its supercomputer technology to the real world, hoping to gain a competitive edge in the lucrative market for powerful servers that run vast corporate networks.
		In particular, IBM ibm (nyse: ibm) hopes that the newest version of its RS/6000 system--to be unveiled on July 24--will steal some of the momentum away from Sun Microsystems sunw (nasdaq: sunw), which leads the overall market for servers using Unix operating systems and dominates the high-end with its Enterprise 10000.
		IBM makes no bones about the fact that it intends to mount a direct challenge to Sun, whose Enterprise 10000, also known as Starfire, has been the hottest-selling product in its class for several years.
	www.forbes.com /2000/07/21/mu3_print.html (568 words)

	U.S. gives IBM's ASCI White a public debut - Computerworld
		Touted as the fastest supercomputer in the world, IBM's ASCI White was given a public dedication at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California yesterday, where researchers showed the first scientific data obtained using the system.
		ASCI White, which can perform up to 12.3 trillion operations per second (a measurement called a teraflop) covers as much area as two basketball courts and weighs 106 tons.
		ASCI White was designed to run at 10 teraflops but exceeded expectations.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2001/0,4814,63095,00.html (283 words)

	Forbes.com - Magazine Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		That goes to the ASCI White installation at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California, a 106-ton gang of IBM RS/6000 servers capable of processing information at a rate of 4.9 trillion floating point operations per second (teraflops).
		IBM has beaten Sun largely in the bottom half of the list, where supercomputers are just souped-up servers with as few as eight processors.
		ASCI White came with a price tag of $110 million, and even the least expensive systems fetch more than $1 million.
	www.forbes.com /2000/11/04/1104supercomp_print.html (972 words)

	U.S. activates world's fastest supercomputer: IBM's ASCI White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The IBM machine, known as ASCI White, is capable of 12.3 trillion calculations per second, more than the combined speed of the next three most powerful supercomputers on earth.
		ASCI White helps scientists maintain the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile by simulating in three dimensions the aging and operation of nuclear weapons.
		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.
	www.ibm.com /servers/eserver/pseries/news/pressreleases/2001/aug/asci.html (583 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Nuclear tests at warp speed
		The Asci White is the size of two basketball courts.
		As powerful as Asci White is, some of the life science computing challenges on the near horizon will demand even faster machines.
		White itself will no doubt be left in the dust, as the race for more computing speed continues.
	news.bbc.co.uk /low/english/sci/tech/newsid_1685000/1685129.stm (542 words)

	ITworld.com - IBM again tops supercomputer rankings
		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/pfindex.html (341 words)

	IBM unleashes computer - Jul. 24, 2000
		The RS/6000 SP supercomputer employs the same technology as IBM's ASCI white system, which is used by the U.S. Department of Energy to simulate nuclear testing.
		ASCI White contains more than 8,100 microprocessors and is capable of processing 12.3 trillion calculations per second -- thirty thousand times faster than an average personal computer.
		IBM said over 70 percent of all its supercomputers sold are used in commercial application processing, including complex tasks such as oceanographic modeling and ship design.
	money.cnn.com /2000/07/24/technology/ibm (243 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - World's fastest computer boots up
		ASCI White is a formidable machine, even by supercomputing standards.
		ASCI White is also 1,000 times faster than IBM's Deep Blue, the supercomputer that beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997.
		ASCI White consists of 8,192 microprocessors and has as much memory as 50,000 personal computers.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn1157 (293 words)

	CNN.com - Race for fastest computer heats up - Nov. 19, 2002
		IBM says Blue Gene/Lite, running the Linux operating system, will tackle research on global climate change and study the interaction between atmospheric chemistry and pollution.
		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.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/TECH/biztech/11/19/ibm.supercomputerr.ap (734 words)

	IBM Research \| IBM Research \| Computer Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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 (327 words)

	Forbes.com: IBM christens the brawniest supercomputer yet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		If ASCI White can generate talking points for IBM salespeople, it can do the same thing for the public relations crew at Lawrence Livermore--and boy, could they use it.
	www.forbes.com /2000/06/29/mu6.html (1084 words)

	ASCI White, Lawrence Livermore Lab :: SETIAI
		The construction of ASCI White (pictured right) was completed in June 2000 and is currently the worlds most powerful supercomputer.
		The ASCI White supercomputer is owned by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, USA.
		Most of the work using ASCI White is related to nuclear weapons research.
	www.setiai.com /archives/000035.html (378 words)

	IBM ASCI White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		IBM ASCI White isa supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
		The system was built in Poughkeepsie, New York.Completed in June 2000 it was transported tospecially built facilities in California and officially dedicated on August 15, 2001.
		It was built as stage three of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) started bythe 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.
	www.therfcc.org /ibm-asci-white-159468.html (230 words)

	News & Events - News Releases
		The ASCI White supercomputer is a classified system used by the U.S. Department of Energy to simulate nuclear tests.
		Covering an area the size of two basketball courts, ASCI White is capable of processing 12.3 trillion calculations per second.
		IBM, RS/6000, SP and AIX are registered trademarks or trademarks of the IBM Corporation in the United States, other countries, or both.
	www.bu.edu /phpbin/news/releases/display.php?id=289 (593 words)

	IBM wins US Gov super computer deal \| The Register
		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 be delivered in stages with the first IBM eServer systems arriving next year.
		IBM said the supercomputer will have the capability to process data at a rate of one terabit per second, equivalent to the data transmitted by ten thousand weather satellites.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2002/11/19/ibm_wins_us_gov_super (644 words)

	Supercomputers
		De geleverde ASCI White is duizend maal krachtiger dan de elektronische schaakkampioen Deep Blue en veruit de snelste computer ter wereld.
		Het zal IBM niet lekker zitten dat de Amerikaanse overheid rivaal Compaq vorige week de opdracht gaf een nog snellere computer te ontwikkelen: ASCI Q. Deze reus wordt ingezet bij het Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico en is met bijna 12.000 processors tweeënhalf keer zo snel als ASCI White.
		ASCI Q bestaat uit een reeks gekoppelde Alpha-servers, de apparaten voor van Compaq voor zware bedrijfsmatige toepassingen.
	www.xs4all.nl /~hotze/supercomputers.html (674 words)

	Supercomputer
		Today, supercomputers are typically one-off custom designs produced by "traditional" companies such as IBM and HP, who had purchased many of the 1980s companies to gain their experience.
		Its performance is over 5 times that of the previous fastest supercomputer, the cluster computer ASCI White at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
		The United States Government ASCI initiative aims to replace nuclear testing with simulation, to maintain its strategic advantage in the presence of nuclear test-ban treaties.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/supercomputer (1574 words)

	Fastest supercomputer unveiled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		IBM is the leading maker of supercomputers, with a 41 percent market share, followed by NEC and Fujitsu, said Christopher Willard, an analyst with IDC, a research firm in Mountain View.
		ASCI, which stands for Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, is a NNSA program that seeks to create a system that could perform 100 trillion calculations per second by 2005, the speed scientists believe is ideal for keeping the country's nuclear arsenal safe.
		The ASCI White supercomputer is made of more than 8,100 IBM Power 3-II processors -- an updated version of the processor in the company's Deep Blue machine that beat chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/08/16/BU192559.DTL&type=tech (635 words)

	ASCI White Livermore Lab Unveils Supercomputer Brian Bergstein / AP 15aug01
		ASCI White is roughly as powerful as 50,000 desktop computers.
		ASCI White was designed for the government by IBM Corp., which delivered it to Livermore last year in 28 tractor-trailers.
		The government says that to certify the nuclear arsenal with full confidence, it needs a supercomputer that is 10 times as powerful as ASCI White by 2004.
	www.mindfully.org /Energy/ASCI-White-Livermore.htm (562 words)

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