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To: vincent bilotta who wrote (4394)	2/12/1998 10:21:00 PM
From: vincent bilotta	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

does SGI/Cray have a petaflop box in the works? looking at IBM's press release, they're building a few of these things. i can only believe that IBM's exclusive contract to put the Vatican Library online, has put them in good graces with many nuns at DOE. does anyone know what this weeks definition of "high performance" is? vincent biz.yahoo.com Today's announcement complements two previous announcements by DOE, underscoring IBM's technology leadership and its ability to deliver advanced computing technology. Last week, President Clinton announced the DOE's ASCI PathForward initiative to build the infrastructure necessary for a 100 tera-flop computer. Under PathForward, IBM will develop high-speed switching technology for supercomputers capable of 30 to 100 trillion calculations per second. In 1996, IBM was a winner in the initial ASCI contract with the DOE and Livermore to develop a three tera-flop computer. IBM plans to deliver the system in 1999.

To: vincent bilotta who wrote (4394)	2/17/1998 3:25:00 AM
From: Mark Dalton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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