Cobalt (Computers on Benches All Linked Together ) goes into operation
with 94 nodes on March 1 1999
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All nodes are 500MHz 21164 Digital Alpha systems, each with 4Gbyte local hard drive and a 100Mbit Ethernet card installed and 64 to 512 MB of memory