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To: Ilaine who started this subject	8/18/2001 4:01:20 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	of 6901

The supercomputer — known as Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative White, or ASCI White — has a mind-boggling amount of other uses, say researchers who use it. ASCI White is roughly as powerful as 50,000 desktop computers. It can store the equivalent of 300 million books, or six Libraries of Congress. It has 8,192 microprocessors, housed in a series of black refrigerator-sized boxes linked together by 83 miles of wiring in a room the size of two basketball courts. A giant air-conditioning system that cools ASCI White requires three megawatts of electricity, enough for a small city. <<<and they wonder why they had electric outages>>> ASCI White was designed for the government by IBM Corp., which delivered it to Livermore last year in 28 tractor-trailers. The mammoth computer is 1,000 times more powerful than Deep Blue, which defeated chess grand master Garry Kasparov in 1997. popsci.com maybe you should get one to store your information...

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