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To: vincent bilotta who wrote (4394)2/17/1998 3:25:00 AM
From: Mark Dalton  Read Replies (1) of 14451
 
ASCI-pentaflop... well read the following..
Key phrase from articles below:
"help create the 100- to 1,000-fold increase in computing power"

"PathForward is a trail-blazing relationship between the U.S.
government and the U.S. computer industry. Silicon Graphics/Cray
and our other industry partners will work side by side with the
U.S. Department of Energy in developing a technology base for
the 30 to 100 trillion operation per second computers," said
Dr. Gil Weigand

Also the Labs are (as always) in competition between each other,
as well as, the vendors.

I guess in the IBM version they conviently left out it is a multi-lab
and multi-vendor program. ASCI - Accelertated Strategic Computing
Initiative, is also at LANL, and Sandia. (Not that I blame them <grin>).

lanl.gov
LLNL - Was IBM's SP-2s
LANL - SGI/Cray Origin 2000's
SNL - *Intel (but they dropped out of super computing 2 months
after acceptance of the machine).

The initial contracts were in 1996, and basically this year
was just a continuation.

Here was the group announcement out of LLNL:
llnl.gov

Old announcement from SGI/Cray was (Feb. 3):
cray.com
sgi.com

Again, this is the same 'ASCI PathForward' news.

Mark
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