DoE ASCI History

• 1998 – Mountain Blue – Los Alamos

  • 48 128-Processor SGI Origin 2000 systems
  • 75TB disk storage

• 2002 – Q

  • 310 32-processor machines + 64 32-processor I/O nodes
  • 2048 2GB FC connections to 64 I/O nodes
  • 2048 2GB FC connections to disk storage subsystem
  • 692 TB disk storage, 20GB/sec bandwidth

    • 2 file systems of 346GB each
    • 4 file system layers between the application
      and the disk media

• 2004 – Red Storm

  • 10,000 processors, 10TB Main Memory
  • 240TB Disk, 50 GB/sec bandwidth

• 2006 – Purple

  • 10,000 processors, 50TB Main Memory
  • 2.5PB disk storage, 100GB/sec

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