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[patrick@Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan)]

How much you want to bet that a first copy goes to virginia?

Patrick

> 
> NY Times, Sept 8, 1995.
> 
> 
> Intel Wins Contract to Develop World's Fastest
> Supercomputer
> 
> By Lawrence M. Fisher
> 
> 
> San Francisco, Sept. 7 -- The Intel Corporation said
> today that it had won a a contract from the Department of
> Energy to develop what it called the world's fastest
> supercomputer.
> 
> 
> The machine, to be built at an estimated cost of $45
> million, would use 9,000 of Intel's forthcoming P6
> microprocessors linked in a configuration known as
> massively parallel. In recent years, massively parallel
> computers using thousands of relatively inexpensive
> off-the-shelf chips have stolen the performance lead from
> traditional supercomputers like those made famous by Cray
> Research Inc., which use far fewer, but far more powerful
> processors.
> 
> 
> Intel said its new supercomputer would be the first to
> achieve the goal of calculating more than a trillion
> floating-point operations a second, known as a teraflop.
> The machine, to be kept at Sandia National Laboratories
> In Albuquerque, N.M., would be used by Department of
> Energy scientists to study a variety of complex problems,
> foremost among them nuclear weapons safety.
> 
> 
> "President Clinton is committed to ending underground
> nuclear testing," Victor Reis, Assistant Secretary for
> Energy Programs, said in a statement. "Computer
> simulation will be a principal means for insuring the
> safety, reliability and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear
> deterrent. We are embarking on a 10-year program to
> advance the state of high performance computing to meet
> national security objectives," he said. ...
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