Los Alamos National Laboratory yesterday announced a deal to acquire two Linux clusters, one for modeling nuclear weapons and the other for unclassified research in biology, chemistry and engineering.
Linux Networx Inc. of Bluffdale, Utah, will build a 1,408-node cluster, dubbed Lightning, for the Energy Department’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program and a 256-node cluster, called Orange, for the lab’s Institutional Computing project.
The Advanced Simulation and Computing program, formerly known as the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), simulates the aging of nuclear weapons to assess their safety. Since the mid-1990s, ASCI has funded many of the world’s largest computers.
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