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Advanced Simulation and Computing Program

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The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (or ASC) is a super-computing program run by the National Nuclear Security Administration, in order to simulate, test, and maintain the United States nuclear stockpile. [1]

21 relations: AlphaServer, ASC Purple, ASCI Blue Mountain, ASCI Blue Pacific, ASCI Red, ASCI White, Blue Gene, Cielo (supercomputer), DEC Alpha, Fluid dynamics, IBM Sequoia, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lustre (file system), Moore's law, National Nuclear Security Administration, Quadrics, Red Storm (computing), Sandia National Laboratories, Stockpile stewardship, Supercomputer.

AlphaServer

AlphaServer was the name given to a series of server computers, produced from 1994 onwards by Digital Equipment Corporation, and later by Compaq and HP.

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ASC Purple

ASC Purple was a supercomputer installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA.

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ASCI Blue Mountain

ASCI Blue Mountain is a supercomputer installed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

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ASCI Blue Pacific

ASCI Blue Pacific was a supercomputer installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA at the end of 1998.

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ASCI Red

ASCI Red (also known as ASCI Option Red or TFLOPS) was the first computer built under the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), the supercomputing initiative of the United States government created to help the maintenance of the United States nuclear arsenal after the 1992 moratorium on nuclear testing.

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ASCI White

ASCI White was a supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

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Blue Gene

Blue Gene is an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the PFLOPS (petaFLOPS) range, with low power consumption.

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Cielo (supercomputer)

Cielo was a supercomputer located at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States built by Cray Inc.

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DEC Alpha

Alpha, originally known as Alpha AXP, is a 64-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), designed to replace their 32-bit VAX complex instruction set computer (CISC) ISA.

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Fluid dynamics

In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids - liquids and gases.

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IBM Sequoia

IBM Sequoia is a petascale Blue Gene/Q supercomputer constructed by IBM for the National Nuclear Security Administration as part of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC).

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is an American federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States, founded by the University of California, Berkeley in 1952.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos or LANL for short) is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory initially organized during World War II for the design of nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.

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Lustre (file system)

Lustre is a type of parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing.

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Moore's law

Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years.

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National Nuclear Security Administration

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a United States federal government agency responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science.

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Quadrics

Quadrics was a supercomputer company formed in 1996 as a joint venture between Alenia Spazio and the technical team from Meiko Scientific.

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Red Storm (computing)

Red Storm is a supercomputer architecture designed for the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration Advanced Simulation and Computing Program.

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Sandia National Laboratories

The Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), managed and operated by the National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International), is one of three National Nuclear Security Administration research and development laboratories.

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Stockpile stewardship

Stockpile stewardship refers to the United States program of reliability testing and maintenance of its nuclear weapons without the use of nuclear testing.

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Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Simulation_and_Computing_Program

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