Atomic Weapons Establishment gets top ten supercomputer to simulate nuclear deterrentLondon 05 December 2001 The United Kingdom's Atomic Weapons Establishment (UK AWE) will upgrade its IBM supercomputer making it one of the world's top ten most powerful machines. The IBM supercomputer will be capable of 3 trillion operations per second making it one quarter the size of ASCI White, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
It will be used to carry out simulations for the design of the nuclear deterrent and for calculating the safety of the nuclear stockpile. The supercomputer will have a particular role in
facilitating collaboration between the UK and the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia laboratories in the United States.
Dr. Daryl Landeg, Head of High Performance Computing at AWE, stated: "Supercomputing is one of the pillars of capability that enables AWE to underwrite the safety and performance of the UK nuclear deterrent in the test-ban era. This procurement will place us firmly in the teraOP computing league and open the way for greatly improved science and engineering simulations."
Peter Ungaro, IBM Vice President of High Performance Computing, added: "We have been working with AWE for many years and have committed to provide the technology to help them with their research which demands incredibly high levels of computing power. The future of our
supercomputing technologies is recognised by commercial establishments like AWE, as well as government agencies throughout the world providing the complex technologies required to support many of today's business and scientific challenges."
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