An
amazing,
fantastic,
god-like, computer built by
Silicon Graphics for the
Los Alamos Laboratory. The damn thing ran
Linpack, the industry's standard test, at 1.608 trillion
calculations per second, or
teraOps.
Damn.
It uses 48
Cray Origin2000 servers, containing 128
SMPs each; the total number of processors is 6144. It generates so much data that they had to design an entirely new
visualization system to make sense of all of it. The visualization system is a bitch by itself, boasting 16 of SGI's
Infinite Reality graphics engines. In September, using just one-sixth of Blue Mountain, Los Alamos's weapons scientists were able to run a
weapon simulation that may help solve a decades-old mystery raised by a past underground
nuclear test.
Hard Drive Space? Oh, yeah. It has more than 76
trillion bytes of
fiber channel disk. That's 76,000 gigabytes of space. Provided you're a movie buff, you can store 17391
DVD-quality movies on it.
source: http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/News/blue111298.html