Thor's Hammer is the first supercomputer using the Red Storm architecture. In 2004, the computer was installed at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The project is a collaboration between Cray and Sandia Labs. A supercomputer is a computer that leads the world in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation, at the time of its introduction. ... Red Storm is a computer architecture designed for the ASCI Thors Hammer supercomputer at Sandia National Laboratory and built by Cray, Inc as the XT3. ... It has been suggested that Sandia Base be merged into this article or section. ... Nickname: The Duke City Location in the state of New Mexico Coordinates: Country United States State New Mexico County Bernalillo Founded 1706  - Mayor Martin Chavez Area    - City 469. ... For alternate meanings, see Cray (disambiguation). ...

It is a 3-dimensional mesh-based MIMD machine consisting of 10,368 compute nodes, 10 TB of total distributed memory and 240 TB of disk storage. The system uses AMD 64-bit Opteron CPUs as processing nodes and PowerPC 440 based communication processors called SeaStar. The system consists of 140 cabinets, taking up 3000 square feet (280 m²). Multiple Instruction Multiple Data (MIMD) is a type of parallel computing architecture where many functional units perform different operations on different data. ... A terabyte (derived from the prefix tera-) is a measurement term for data storage capacity equal to 1000 gigabytes, i. ... Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ... The AMD Opteron (codenamed SledgeHammer during development) was the first of AMDs eighth-generation x86 processors based on the K8 or Hammer core, and the first processor to implement the AMD64 (formerly x86-64) instruction set architecture. ... Die of an Intel 80486DX2 microprocessor (actual size: 12×6. ... The Power Architecture logo PowerPC 400 family is a line of 32-bit embedded RISC-processor cores built using Power Architecture technology. ...

The system consists of two partitions: a compute partition and a service partition. Compute nodes run a very light-weight operating system called "Catamount", which is based on the operating system of ASCI Red called "Cougar". Service partitions run a version of Linux. ASCI Red or ASCI Option Red, is a supercomputer installed at Sandia National Laboratories, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family that uses the Linux kernel. ...

The system is meant to be a replacement for the earlier ASCI Red. The system has a theoretical peak of 40 TeraFLOPS. ASCI Red or ASCI Option Red, is a supercomputer installed at Sandia National Laboratories, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ... In computing, FLOPS (or flops) is an acronym meaning FLoating point Operations Per Second. ...

It was built as stage of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) started by the United States Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build a simulator to replace live nuclear testing following the moratorium on testing started by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993. The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (formely called Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, or ASCI) is a 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. ... The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government responsible for energy policy and nuclear safety. ... The United States National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is part of the United States Department of Energy. ... Preparation for an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site in the 1980s. ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, trade unions, universities, and countries. ... George Herbert Walker Bush GCB (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States of America serving from 1989 to 1993. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Cray Inc. offers a commercial version of the system known as the Cray XT3. The Cray XT3 is a shared-memory massively parallel MIMD supercomputer designed by Cray Inc. ...

External links

• Red Storm fact sheet