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ASCI Blue Pacific
ASCI Blue Pacific is a supercomputer that is installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. The computer was a colloboration between IBM Corporation and Lawerence Livermore Lab. It was installed at the end of 1998.
It is a IBM RS6000 SP massively parallel processing system. It contains 5,856 PowerPC 604e microprocessors. Its theoretical top performance is 3.9 teraops.
It was built as a stage of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) started by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build a simulator to replace live WMD testing following the moratorium on testing started by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993.
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