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ASCI White

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ASCI White

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It became operational in March 2002 as the world's fastest supercomputer, so quick that its raw processing power equaled that of the 20 speediest US computers combined, far outpacing the previous title holder, the IBM-built ASCI white at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which is used for nuclear weapons simulations.
The second fastest computer is ASCI White built by IBM, with a score of 4,967.
The Compaq supercomputer should be able to do at least 100 teraflops per second, which is about eight times faster than the existing ASCI White but considerably slower than Blue Gene/L.
 
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