Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 3123
Land area (2000): 3.055740 sq. miles (7.914329 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.055740 sq. miles (7.914329 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30900
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.654687 N, 78.927773 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 21532
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Frostburg
Wikipedia
FROSTBURG was a Connection Machine 5 (CM-5) supercomputer used by the US National Security Agency (NSA) to perform higher-level mathematical calculations. The CM-5 was built by the Thinking Machines Corporation, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at a cost of US$25 million. The system was installed at NSA in 1991, and operated until 1997. It was the first massively parallel processing computer bought by NSA, originally containing 256 processing nodes. The system was upgraded in 1993 with an additional 256 nodes, for a total of 512 nodes. The system had a total of 500 billion 32-bit words (~2 terabytes) of storage, 2.5 billion words (~10 gigabytes) of memory, and could perform at a theoretical maximum 65.5 gigaflops. The operating system CMost was based on UNIX, but optimized for parallel processing.
FROSTBURG is now on display at the National Cryptologic Museum.
Usage examples of "frostburg".
Prior to that he’d been in the tiny town of Frostburg, Maryland, the only job from which he hadn’t been fired.