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Wednesday, August 15, 2001
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5095684,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_nbs_hl Big Blue flexes supercomputing muscle By John G. Spooner, ZDNet News IBM and the federal government will unveil Wednesday a system that ranks as the world's most powerful supercomputer. The pair will declare ASCI White open for business during a dedication ceremony to be held at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. ASCI White, which packs 8,192 IBM Power3 processors and 160 terabytes of disc storage, will be used for nuclear weapons testing, including warhead safety and simulation of nuclear explosions....
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