ASCI Q
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The ASCI Q was a supercomputer
at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
, installed in 2003. It was a DEC AlphaServer SC45/GS Cluster and reached 7.727 Teraflops.
ASQI Q used DEC Alpha
1250 MHz (2.5 GFlops) processors and a Quadrics
interconnect. ASCI Q placed as the 2nd fastest supercomputer in the world in 2003.
Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation.Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as problems including quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modeling A supercomputer is a...
at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico...
, installed in 2003. It was a DEC AlphaServer SC45/GS Cluster and reached 7.727 Teraflops.
ASQI Q used DEC Alpha
DEC Alpha
Alpha, originally known as Alpha AXP, is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by Digital Equipment Corporation , designed to replace the 32-bit VAX complex instruction set computer ISA and its implementations. Alpha was implemented in microprocessors...
1250 MHz (2.5 GFlops) processors and a Quadrics
Quadrics
Quadrics was a supercomputer company formed in 1996 as a joint venture between Alenia Spazio and the technical team from Meiko Scientific. They produced hardware and software for clustering commodity computer systems into massively parallel systems. Their highpoint was in June 2003 when six out of...
interconnect. ASCI Q placed as the 2nd fastest supercomputer in the world in 2003.