Title :
A TeraFLOP supercomputer in 1996: the ASCI TFLOP system
Author :
Mattson, Timothy G. ; Scott, David ; Wheat, Stephen
Author_Institution :
Enterprise Server Group, Intel Corp., Beaverton, OR, USA
Abstract :
To maintain the integrity of the US nuclear stockpile without detonating nuclear weapons, the DOE needs the results of computer-simulations that overwhelm the world´s most powerful supercomputers. Responding to this need, the US Department of Energy (DOE) initiated the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI). This program accelerates the development of new scalable supercomputers resulting in a TeraFLOP computer before the end of 1996. In September 1995, DOE announced that it would work with Intel Corporation to build the ASCI TFLOP supercomputer. This system would use commodity commercial off-the-shelf (CCOTS) components to keep the price under control and would contain over 9000 Intel Pentium Pro processors. In this paper, we describe the hardware and software design of this supercomputer
Keywords :
government data processing; military computing; multiprocessing systems; weapons; ASCI TFLOP system; Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative; Intel Pentium Pro processors; TeraFLOP supercomputer; US Department of Energy; US nuclear stockpile integrity maintenance; commodity commercial off-the-shelf components; nuclear weapons; price control; scalable supercomputers; Acceleration; Control systems; Costs; Hardware; Laboratories; Nuclear weapons; Software design; Supercomputers; Testing; US Department of Energy;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing Symposium, 1996., Proceedings of IPPS '96, The 10th International
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7255-2
DOI :
10.1109/IPPS.1996.508043
