ASCI White

ASCI White was a supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which was briefly the fastest supercomputer in the world.^[1]

It was a

teraFLOPS (TFLOPS). A single modern^[when?] 4U rackmount server could match these specifications while weighing under 50 kg and consuming under 2 kW of power. The system ran IBM's AIX

operating system.

ASCI White was made up of three individual systems, the 512-node White, the 28-node Ice and the 68-node Frost.

The system was built in Poughkeepsie, New York. Completed in June 2000 it was transported to specially built facilities in California and officially dedicated on August 15, 2001.^[2] Its peak performance of 12.3 TFLOPS was not achieved in the widely accepted LINPACK tests. The system cost US$110 million (equivalent to $195 million in 2023).

It was built as stage three of the

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty started by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton

in 1993.

The machine was decommissioned on July 27, 2006. ^[citation needed]

References

^ "No. 1 system from November 2000 to November 2001". top500.org. Retrieved May 22, 2019.
^ "The World's Fastest Computer - Meeting the Challenge of Stockpile Stewardship". Archived from the original on November 11, 2014.

Records
Preceded by ASCI Red 2.379 teraflops	World's most powerful supercomputer November 2000 – November 2001	Succeeded by NEC Earth Simulator 35.86 teraflops

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[1] "No. 1 system from November 2000 to November 2001". top500.org. Retrieved May 22, 2019.

[2] "The World's Fastest Computer - Meeting the Challenge of Stockpile Stewardship". Archived from the original on November 11, 2014.

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