June 29, 2000: The ASCI White
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2000 – IBM unveiled the ASCI White – their fastest computer yet. This supercomputer was based on IBM’s commercial RS/6000 SP computer. 512 computers were connected to make this supercomputer. over 8 million processors, 5 Terabytes of memory and 160 TB of disk storage.
The computer was completed on this day in New York, and would go on-line on August 15, 2001 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
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- Compuserve acquires TheSource, a major competitor
- Gigabit Ethernet standard is set
- Max Butler pleads guilty to stealing 2 million credit cards
