Comments on: Hengeveld: Specialized HPC: ASCI RED, Roadrunner, Touchstone Delta, and WOPR – Where are they now? http://insidehpc.com/2011/08/15/hengeveld-specialized-hpc-asci-red-roadrunner-touchstone-delta-and-wopr-%e2%80%93-where-are-they-now/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Hans Meuer http://insidehpc.com/2011/08/15/hengeveld-specialized-hpc-asci-red-roadrunner-touchstone-delta-and-wopr-%e2%80%93-where-are-they-now/#comment-363638 Hans Meuer Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:59:27 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=22330#comment-363638 John, I should like to refine your statements about Intel ASCI Red a bit: - ASCI Red made the Teraflop/s barrier at the end of 1996 and debuted as #1 system in the TOP500 list in June 1997 with 1.1 Tflop/s Rmax (9th list) / not in 1998. - ASCI Red was retired from service at the end of 2005, after having been on 18 TOP500 lists over 8.5 years. It was the fastest computer on the TOP500 from June 1997 to June 2000 and was replaced as the #1 system on the November 2000 list by IBM's ASCI White at LLNL. The final standing of ASCI Red in the TOP500 was #276 in the November 2005 list with 2.4 Tflop/s Rmax. Kind regards, Hans Meuer John,
I should like to refine your statements about Intel ASCI Red a bit:

- ASCI Red made the Teraflop/s barrier at the end of 1996 and debuted as #1 system in the TOP500 list in June 1997 with 1.1 Tflop/s Rmax (9th list) / not in 1998.

- ASCI Red was retired from service at the end of 2005, after having been on 18 TOP500 lists over 8.5 years. It was the fastest computer on the TOP500 from June 1997 to June 2000 and was replaced as the #1 system on the November 2000 list by IBM’s ASCI White at LLNL. The final standing of ASCI Red in the TOP500 was #276 in the November 2005 list with 2.4 Tflop/s Rmax.

Kind regards,
Hans Meuer

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