New systems at ARL and ERDC DSRCs will provide an additional 10 petaFLOPS of computational capability.
The Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) completed its fiscal year 2016 investment in supercomputing capability supporting the DoD Science and Technology (S&T), Test and Evaluation (T&E), and Acquisition Engineering communities. The acquisition consists of three supercomputing systems with corresponding hardware and software maintenance services. At almost 10 petaFLOPs, this procurement will increase the DoD HPCMP's aggregate supercomputing capability to 31.1 petaFLOPs.
The new supercomputers will be installed at the Army Research Lab (ARL) and Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs), and will serve users from all of the services and agencies of the Department:
- The Army Research Laboratory DSRC in Aberdeen, Maryland, will receive two SGI ICE X systems containing Intel Xeon "Broadwell" processors and NVIDIA Tesla K40 General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs). These systems will consist of 33,088 and 73,920 "Broadwell" compute cores respectively, 32 GPGPUs each, 200 and 252 terabytes of memory respectively, 3.5 and 12 petabytes of disk storage respectively, and will provide 1.2 and 2.6 petaFLOPS of peak computing capability each.
- The US Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center DSRC in Vicksburg, Mississippi, will receive a Cray XC40 system containing Intel Xeon "Broadwell" processors, Intel Knights Landing (KNL) Many Integrated Core processors, and NVIDIA Tesla K40 GPGPUs. The system will consist of 126,192 "Broadwell" compute cores, 540 KNL nodes (64 cores each, 34,560 cores total), 32 GPGPUs, 437 terabytes of memory, 16 petabytes of disk storage, and will provide 6.05 petaFLOPS of peak computing capability.
The systems are expected to enter production service in the first half of calendar year 2017.
The Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) is proud to announce the FY 2014 DoD HPC Project Investments (DHPIs). These modest-sized HPC systems were awarded to technically sound, mission critical projects that cannot be performed at the DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs).
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Hero Awards.
They are as Follows:
Innovative Practice: Melissa Nelson, ERDC
Technical Excellence: Nicholas Bisek, AFRL
Mehdi Ghorevshi, US Air Force Academy
Phil Dysktra, HPCMP
Long Term Sustained Performance: David Dumas, ERDC
Stephen Finn, DTRA
Ann Ware, AFRL
HPCMP Interconnector: William Hayes, AFRL
Kevin Schoen, AFRL
Up and Coming
within the HPCMP: Abdul Williams, HPCMP
Miles McGee, HPCMP
HPCMP Team Achievement Award:
NAVAIR Team
Shawn Woodson
Cholwon Paek
Dan Prosser
DREN DJS Transition Team
Rob Scott Kyle Krejci
Stephen Bowman Zachary Thompson
Jonathan Belsan James Bray
Ron Broersma Edward Jackson
Mark Heck Bryan Keeler
Stephen Anthony Jody Thomas
Bradford Bloyer Heather Elliott
James Cook Eric Peterson
Aaron Dymon Edward Kosiba
Congratulations to all of our 2017 winners for their hard work and contributions to our Program. Keep up the good work!
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- Selection of FY 2017 Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Frontier Projects
- Selection of FY 2016 Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Frontier Projects
- 2016 Hero Award Winners Announced
- Announcement of TI-14 and TI-15 Capability Applications Projects (CAPs)
- Selection of FY 2015 HPCMP Applications Software Initiative Projects
- High Performance Computing Modernization Program Adds Capability
- High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Doubles Capabilities - 2014
- 2014 Hero Award Winners Announced
- FY 2014 Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Dedicated High Performance Computing (HPC) Project Investment Awards
- Web Portal for Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center - 2014
- HPCMP Expands HPC Capabilities in DoD - 2014
- New Supercomputers at the ARL DSRC-2013
- IDC Award-2013
- New Supercomputers at the AFRL DSRC-2013
- New Supercomputers at the Navy DSRC-2013
- Green Innovation Award-2012
- IDC Award 2012
- Program Relocates to Mississippi-June 2012
- HPCMP Makes Four petaFLOPs Upgrade-May 2012
- Dr. Post Award 2011
High Performance Computing Modernization Program Increases HPC Capabilities in Department of Defense
The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program finalized its fiscal year 2016 investment in supercomputing capability supporting the DoD science, engineering, test and acquisition engineering communities. The total life-cycle investment is valued at $63.7 million, including acquisition of three supercomputing systems with corresponding hardware and software maintenance services. With the addition of 10 petaFLOPS of computing capability, this procurement will increase the DoD HPCMP's aggregate supercomputing capability to 31.1 petaFLOPS. One petaFLOP equals 1015 floating-point operations per second of computing capability.
The three systems will collectively provide more than 233,000 compute cores, more than 890 terabytes of memory, and a total disk storage capacity of 43 petabytes. These supercomputers will serve users from all Services and Agencies of the Department. Two of the HPCMP's five DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers will receive systems as part of this procurement, the US Army Research Laboratory DSRC in Aberdeen, Maryland, and the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center DSRC in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
This competitive government acquisition was executed through the U S Army Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville, Alabama, which selected systems from Silicon Graphics Federal, LLC and Cray, Inc.
About the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP)
The HPCMP provides the Department of Defense supercomputing capabilities, high-speed network communications and computational science expertise that enable DoD scientists and engineers to conduct a wide-range of focused research and development, test and evaluation, and acquisition engineering activities. This partnership puts advanced technology in the hands of U.S. forces more quickly, less expensively, and with greater certainty of success. Today, the HPCMP provides a comprehensive advanced computing environment for the DD that includes unique expertise in software development and system design, powerful high-performance computing systems, and a premier wide-area research network. The HPCMP is managed on behalf of the Department of Defense by the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center located in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
For more information, visit our website at: www.hpc.mil.