Centers of Supercomputing— Supercomputing At Los Alamos National Laboratory
Chris Barrett, Frank W. Bobrowicz, Ralph G. Brickner, Bradley A. Clark, Rajan Gupta, Ann H. Hayes, Harold E. Trease, Andrew B. White · The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications · 1991
This paper reports on supercomputing at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos has sought to intertwine the fields of computer science and nuclear science, while influencing the design of the computers needed to solve its scientific problems. The complexity and size of the applications prevalent at the Laboratory have dictated a continuing, ever-increasing need for computers one to two orders of magnitude faster than what is currently available. There are currently four CRAY Y-MPs and four X-MPs serving as production computers. The Central Computing Facility (CCF) and the Laboratory Data Communications Center (LDCC), a three-story building completed in 1989, house the supercomputers and associated network servers.