• ASC Purple was a supercomputer installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.
  • The Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program's Purple system was housed in LLNL’s Terascale Simulation Facility (TSF).
  • The history of ASC Purple is really the history of two separate, but interrelated timelines: the evolution of IBM's POWER architecture, and the NNSA's ASC program.
  • ASC Purple , IBM tarafından geliştirilen ve Livermore Ulusal Laboratuvarı'nda kurulan bir süper bilgisayardır .
  • ASC Purple was the result a long tern collaboration effort between NNSA’s ASC) Program and IBM, with LLNL as the lead laboratory.
  • After ten years and three different supercomputer systems, IBM delivers ASC Purple to the US government, a supercomputer capable of 100 Teraflops.
  • Site: DOE/NNSA/LLNL. System URL: http://www.llnl.gov/asc/computing_resources/purple/purple_index.html.
  • ASC Purple and BlueGene/L came as a pack. The two were announced by the DoE in 2002 to be contracted out to IBM for $290 million.
  • top supercomputers : Speed Rank: 11 ASC Purple. Installed at Lawrence Livermore Labs. 12,500 Processors.