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'''ASC Purple''' was a [[supercomputer]] installed at the [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] in [[Livermore, California]]. The computer was a collaboration between [[IBM]] Corporation and Lawrence Livermore Lab. Announced November 19, 2002, it was installed in July 2005 and decommissioned on November 10, 2010. The contract for this computer along with the [[Blue Gene|Blue Gene/L]] supercomputer was worth US $290 million. As of November 2009, the computer ranked 66th on the [[TOP500]] supercomputer list. |
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[[File:ASC Purple Supercomputer.jpg|thumb|ASC Purple computing nodes]] |
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| ⚫ | It was a redundant ring of [[POWER5]] [[Symmetric multiprocessing|SMP]] servers. 196 of these machines were connected together. The system contained 12,544 POWER5 [[microprocessor]]s in total with 50 [[terabyte]]s of total memory and 2 [[petabyte]]s of total disk storage. The system ran IBM's [[AIX operating system|AIX]] 5L [[operating system]]. The computer consumed 7.5 [[Megawatt|MW]] of electricity, including cooling. It has a theoretical processing speed of 100 [[Flops|teraflops]]. |
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| ⚫ | It was built as stage five of the [[Advanced Simulation and Computing Program]] (ASC) started by the U.S. [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] and the [[National Nuclear Security Administration]] to build a simulator to replace live [[nuclear weapon|WMD]] testing following the moratorium on testing started by [[President of the United States|President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] in |
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| ⚫ | It was built as stage five of the [[Advanced Simulation and Computing Program]] (ASC) started by the U.S. [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] and the [[National Nuclear Security Administration]] to build a simulator to replace live [[nuclear weapon|WMD]] testing following the [[Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty|moratorium]] on testing started by [[President of the United States|President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1992 and extended by [[Bill Clinton]] in 1993. |
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== External links == |
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* [https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/purple/PurpleBlueGenePressRelease.html IBM ASCI Purple press release] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222014300/https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/purple/PurpleBlueGenePressRelease.html |date=2013-02-22 }} |
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* [http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/news/pressreleases/2002/nov/asci_purple.html IBM ASCI Purple press release] |
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* [http://www.sandia.gov/supercomp/sc2002/flyers/SC02ASCIPurplev4.pdf Facts on ASCI Purple] |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040821141405/http://www.sandia.gov/supercomp/sc2002/flyers/SC02ASCIPurplev4.pdf Facts on ASCI Purple] |
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* [https://asc.llnl.gov/computing_resources/purple/ ASC Purple at Livermore] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527104247/https://asc.llnl.gov/computing_resources/purple/ |date=2010-05-27 }} |
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* [http://www.llnl.gov/asc ASC at Livermore] |
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ASC Purple was a supercomputer installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. The computer was a collaboration between IBM Corporation and Lawrence Livermore Lab. Announced November 19, 2002, it was installed in July 2005 and decommissioned on November 10, 2010. The contract for this computer along with the Blue Gene/L supercomputer was worth US $290 million. As of November 2009, the computer ranked 66th on the TOP500 supercomputer list.
It was a redundant ring of POWER5 SMP servers. 196 of these machines were connected together. The system contained 12,544 POWER5 microprocessors in total with 50 terabytes of total memory and 2 petabytes of total disk storage. The system ran IBM's AIX 5L operating system. The computer consumed 7.5 MW of electricity, including cooling. It has a theoretical processing speed of 100 teraflops.
It was built as stage five of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC) 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. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993.
External links
[edit]- IBM ASCI Purple press release Archived 2013-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Facts on ASCI Purple
- ASC Purple at Livermore Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
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