AT SANDIA......RED STORM SUPERCOMPUTER RETIRED AT SANDIA

摘要

Red Storm, the pioneering Sandia National Laboratories supercomputer that was the second fastest machine in the world when it was commissioned in 2006, was retired last month. The Cray-Sandia partnership was one of the first computers in the world to break the 100 teraflop (trillion floating point operations per second) barrier, and spawned a new line of business for the near-moribund Cray that company officials say has led to a billion dollars in sales. Today three of the four fastest computers in the United States-at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-are descendants of the original Red Storm design.