Is there an Alliant still running somewhere?

[Patrick Crosby]

Just curious. Is there an Alliant anywhere in the world still running? I
know the company has been gone for 7 or 8 years now. They were
interesting machines for their time.

[Ric Werme]

Patrick Crosby <pcr...@ieee.org> writes:

Wow, someone else still subscribes here! This is the first post about
Alliant in ages. I think they may all be shutdown by now. Our last
gasp, the Campus cluster, achieved 5 GFLOPS on 200 i860 CPUs across 8
nodes.

Given that LeMieux at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
(www.psc.edu) gets 4 TFLOPS with 3000 Alpha CPUs means a single Compaq
ES45 equals the entire Campus system, I'd say there's no reason to run
an Alliant system any more.

The last person doing maintenance is selling of some of his spare
system boards and stuff.

-Ric Werme
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