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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 a node and 8,192 processors in total with 6 terabytes of memory and 160 terabytes of disk storage. The computer weighs 106 tons and consumes 3 MW of electricity with a further 3 MW needed for cooling. It has a theoretical processing speed of 7,226 gigaflops. As it is was made by IBM it runs their AIX operating system.
ASCI White is made up of three individual systems, the 512 node White, the 28 node Ice and the 68 node Frost.
The system was built in Poughkeepsie, New York. Completed in June 2000 it was transported to specially built facilities in California and officially dedicated on August 15, 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap. Claimed performance was 12,300 gigaflops, although this was not achieved in the widely accepted LINPACKLINPACK is a software library for numerical linear algebra. It was written in Fortran by Jack Dongarra, Jim Bunch, Cleve Moler, and Pete Stewart. Designed for use on supercomputers in the 1970s and early 1980s, it has been largely superceded by LAPACK, wh tests. The system cost $110 million.
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