P6 name?
David,
>> It must be parallel system running it's own specialized operating
>> system. I don't even want to ask how much RAM they ordered with that
>> little baby! <g>
Here's what the article said.
Subject: DOE Buys Massively Parallel Supercomputer From Intel 09/08/95 Posted:
8 Sep 95 19:23:52 GMT
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A., 1995 SEP 8 (NB) — The Energy Department has awarded
Intel a $45 million contract for the world's most powerful supercomputer, to be
used to simulate nuclear weapons tests.
The massively parallel computer will use 9,000 Intel P6 processors to power the
new supercomputer. The P6 is the successor to the Pentium processor and will be
used in a wide variety of computers, including the next generation of desktop
machines.
The machine, to be located at Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico, will
have a peak performance of 1.8 trillion operations per second, or teraops,
becoming the first machining to achieve teraops scale processing. The
supercomputer will have 262 gigabytes of system memory.
"Scalability was an important goal in designing the P6," said Andrew Grove,
Intel president and chief executive officer, in a press statement. "It's
exciting that we can create a system 10 times more powerful than the fastest
supercomputer in the world today using the same chips we'll be putting into
desktop PCs."
Just how fast is the Intel machine? "This is the most powerful machine that
exists," Intel spokeswoman Tami Casey told Newsbytes. "In the blink of an eye,
it will perform 40 billion calculations."
"President Clinton is committed to ending underground nuclear testing," said
Victor Reis, assistant energy secretary. "Computer simulation will be a
principal means of ensuring the safety, reliability and effectiveness of the US
nuclear deterrent. We are embarking on a 10-year program to advance the state
of high performance computing to meet national security objectives."