ASCI Blue Pacific Fact Sheet
N/A
N/A (October 28, 1998) – Nodes: 1,464
Performance: 3.88 TF peak
15,000 times the average desk top PC
Storage: 75 TB
All the books in the
Library of Congress
Contract Value: $94 million
Memory: 2.6 TB of RAM
80,000 times the average
desktop PC
Space: 8,000 square feet
Height: 228 yards
Just over two football
fields
Weight: 105,000 lbs
Power: 3,900 watts
Equal to 260 space heaters
Cables: 4.08 miles
AVERAGE DESKTOP PC
Processors: One
Nodes: One
Performance: About 350 MHz
Storage: 8 GB
Contract Value: $1,500
Memory: 256 MB of RAM
Space: Two square feet
Height: 19 inches
Weight: 19 lbs
Power: 95 watts
Cables: 8 feet
Source: IBM