Editing ASCI Blue Pacific

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'''ASCI Blue Pacific''' was a [[supercomputer]] installed at the [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]] (LLNL) in [[Livermore, CA]] at the end of {{Start date and age|1998|p=y}}. It was a collaboration between [[IBM]] and [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory|LLNL]].

It was an [[IBM RS/6000 SP]] ''[[massively parallel]] processing'' system. It contained 5,856 [[PowerPC 600#PowerPC 604e|PowerPC 604e]] [[microprocessor]]s. Its theoretical top performance was 3.9 [[teraflops]].

It was built as a stage of the [[Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative]] (ASCI) started by the U.S. [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]] and the [[National Nuclear Security Administration]] to build a simulator to replace live [[nuclear weapon]] testing following the [[Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty|moratorium]] on testing started by [[President of the United States|President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1992 and extended by [[Bill Clinton]] in 1993.

==External links==
* {{cite web
 |url=http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/direct/newsletter5/node33.html |publisher=[[University of Edinburgh]] |work=[[EPCC]]
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030726111711/http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/direct/newsletter5/node33.html
 |archive-date=2003-07-26 |location=[[Edinburgh]]
 |title=The ASCI machines |quote=IBM have installed two SP architecture MPP systems at Lawrence Livermore National Lab -- the Combined Technology Refresh (CTR) system of 1,344 332MHz PowerPC 604e processors and the larger Sustained Stewardship TeraOp machine of 5,856 processors. The CTR system is the machine that appears on the Top 500 list with a peak quoted speed of 0.9 [[FLOPS|TFLOPS]] and a sustained Linpack benchmark of 0.46 TFLOPS. In principle, the SST machine has a peak speed of 3.8 TFLOPS, but is as yet unmeasured in benchmark terms. }}
* {{cite web
 |title=Blue2000 - DOE's ASCI Program |url=http://www.itrd.gov/pubs/blue00/asci.html |location=[[Arlington, VA]]
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041018003251/http://itrd.gov/pubs/blue00/asci.html |archive-date=2004-10-18
 |work=National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NCO/NITRD)}}

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