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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (44837)	8/30/2001 11:07:45 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

Looks like Power 4 based systems will be announced next month with shipments late this fall. That's only about 3 month off their original schedule. By the way... have any high end USIII boxes shipped yet?? biz.yahoo.com Oak Ridge National Lab Selects IBM eServer Supercomputer for Global Warming Research POWER4-based System Addresses Need in the U.S. for Powerful Supercomputer to Investigate Earth's Climate OAK RIDGE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 2001-- IBM today announced that Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) will install a powerful new IBM eServer(1) supercomputer for scientific research that promises to significantly improve the U.S. government's ability to predict long-range climate trends as well as tackle a wide spectrum of other scientific projects. The design of the IBM system opens new frontiers in computational science, advancing many areas of investigation and helping researchers understand how global warming may affect agricultural output and water supply levels. ``Leadership in high performance computing and computational sciences is a hallmark goal of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is critical to the lab's science and technology agenda,'' said Bill Madia, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ``The new IBM 4TFlops machine will have a significant impact in our ability to excel in advanced open scientific computing.'' The machine will incorporate IBM eServer POWER4 technology to achieve a target peak performance level of four trillion calculations per second. Nearly tripling the amount of processing power in ORNL's data centers, the IBM system is expected to rank among the world's five most powerful supercomputers when completed in early 2002. POWER4 is the advanced microprocessor that powers the next generation of IBM eServer UNIX(2) systems -- code-named ``Regatta'' -- which are scheduled to begin shipping later this year. THE WATSONYOUTH