Part of Blue Mountain Ships

One part of the Los Alamos new supercomputer, Blue Mountain has shipped. SGI shipped the 512 processer module to Los Alamos. Currently Los Alamos is involved in a race with Lawrence Livermore and Sandia to build a 100 tflops machine by 2004. Los Alamos will be using their machine to accurately testing the United States' aging nukes. Sandia's box is out in front. It is an Intel-built machine equipped with 9,072 Pentium Pro processors capable of performing up to 1.8 Tflops. However, Intel has dropped out of the super-computer business, and eventually the SGI box at Los Alamos and the IBM box at Livermore will be in true competition.