ADVISORY/Livermore Lab Unveils World's Fastest Supercomputer: Record-Setting ASCI White Makes Public Debut.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Aug. 15) NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com --(BUSINESS WIRE)
What: National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) head General
John A. Gordon joins Laboratory and IBM management to dedicate
the massive IBM ASCI White supercomputer with 8,192 processors
that perform 12.3 trillion operations per second.
When: Wednesday, August 15, 2001, at 11 a.m.
Where: LLNL's Classified Supercomputer Room, Bldg. 451 (Badges,
camera permits and U.S. citizenship required)
Notes: -- Ranked "world's fastest" June 21, 2001 by TOP500.
-- Tour of computer facilities follows dedication.
-- View 3-D color simulations on high-resolution video wall.
-- See the IBM T-220, a 21" high-res. monitor with 9 million
pixels.
-- Supporting Beta/SP B-roll available.
Additional Contacts:
IBM -- John Buscemi, jbuscemi@us.ibm.com, 914/766-4495
NNSA -- Al Stotts, ASTOTTS@DOEAL.GOV, 505/845-6094
LLNL -- Don Johnston, johnston19@llnl.gov, 925/423-4902
NOTE: Press members interested in attending need to contact Liz
Garcia at LLNL Public Affairs Office at 925/422-7655 to make
arrangements.
The National Nuclear Security Administration's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: see Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (body) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - (LLNL) A research organaisatin operated by the University of California under a contract with the US Department of Energy. is managed by the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). . Laboratory news releases and photos are also available electronically on the World Wide Web of the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. http://www.llnl.gov/PAO and on UC Newswire. ASCI White See ASC White. Dedication Fact Sheet HARDWARE -- 8,192 commercial, off-the-shelf IBM Power-3-II processors. -- 12.3 T-flops (trillion floating operations per second) = every man, woman, child in the world adding 2,000 numbers/second non-stop 24/7. -- 28 Moving vans for delivery. -- $110 million contracted cost. -- Total memory: 4 Terabytes = 4,000 Gigabytes. -- Total local disk: 10 Terabytes = 10,000 Gigabytes of local disk among the nodes. -- Total global disk: 150 Terabytes = 150,000 Gigabytes. -- Rotating storage memory = 300,000,000 books. -- Livermore's original, room-sized 1952 Univac, had a memory equivalent of only 1,000 words, or less than four text pages. -- Rated fastest supercomputer in the world June 21, 2001 by TOP500. COMPUTER ROOM -- The cooling capacity = 2,295 tons: three 675-ton and one 270-ton chillers, which could cool 765 homes. -- There are 31 Computer Room Air Conditioners Conditioners used on leather take many shapes and forms. They are used mostly to keep leather from drying out and deteriorating. A very old and widely used conditioner is dubbin. (CRACs). Each CRAC CRAC, n contract-relax, antagonist contract; a proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) technique that uses antagonist and agonist muscles to stretch and relax taut muscles. See also PNF. is 40 tons supplying 20,000 cubic feet per minute Cubic feet per minute (CFM) is a non-SI unit of measurement of gasflow (most often airflow) that indicates how many cubic feet of gas (most often air) pass by a stationary point in one minute. (cfm) of cool air. This delivers 620,000 cfm in the computer room. -- Total power supply available = 10.35MW delivered through a dedicated adjacent electric sub-station and transformers. -- 20,000 square foot computer room is longer than two NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= courts. -- High-tech LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) A display technology that uses rod-shaped molecules (liquid crystals) that flow like liquid and bend light. Unenergized, the crystals direct light through two polarizing filters, allowing a natural background color to show. window bays allow visitors to view the computer room during selected activities, but turn opaque at the flip of a switch for normal classified operations. -- Grid flooring, normally 6"-12" deep, is nearly a meter deep, housing 20" OD cooling pipes and 49.3, miles of cable, including 45 miles of data cable. Note to Editors: A Photo is available at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.080901/bb9 |
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