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ASCI Thor's Hammer
Thor's Hammer is the first supercomputer using the Red Storm architecture. It will be installed at Sandia National Laboratories, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.The project is a collaboration between Cray Inc. and Sandia Labs. The machine is slated to be installed in 2004.
It is a 3 dimensional mesh-based MIMD machine consisting of 10,368 compute nodes, 10 TB of total distributed memory and 120 TB of disk storage. The system uses AMD 64 bit, dual-core Opteron CPUs as processing nodes. The system consists of 140 cabinets, taking up 3000 square feet (280 m²).
The system is meant to be a replacement for the earlier ASCI Red. The system will have a theoretical peak of 40 Tera-ops per second.
It was built as stage of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) started by the United States 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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