10 Top Expensive Super Computers in the world

5. ASC Purple and BlueGene/L (US) – $290 million

These two supercomputers came as a pack. The two computers were announced by the DoE in 2002 to be contracted out to IBM for $290 million. They were installed in 2005 in the Lawrence Livermore Lab, and were decommissioned in 2010. At the time, the ASC Purple was ranked 66th on the TOP500 supercomputers list. The BlueGene/L was an older generation and inferior model to the BlueGene/Q, which system currently has four different supercomputers on TOP500’s top 10 list.
The ASCI Purple at the Lawrence Livermore Lab was built as stage five of the US Department of Energy and the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing Program, built to simulate and replace live WMD testing. The BlueGene/L focused on important scientific areas, such as predicting global climate change, and studying the interaction between atmospheric density and pollution.
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