The Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) completed a portion of its fiscal year 2022 investment in supercomputing capability supporting the DoD Science and Technology (S&T), Test and Evaluation (T&E), and Acquisition Engineering (AE) communities. The acquisition consists of two supercomputing systems with corresponding hardware and software maintenance services. At 10 petaFLOPs, this procurement will increase the DoD HPCMP's aggregate supercomputing capability to 118 petaFLOPs. These systems will significantly enhance the Program’s capability to support the Department of Defense’s most demanding computational challenges, and include significant capabilities for artificial intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning.
The new supercomputers will be installed at the US Army Combat Capabilities Developmental Command Army Research Laboratory (ARL) DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC), and will serve users from all of the services and agencies of the Department.
The ARL DSRC in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, will receive two HPE EX systems containing AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors. The architectures of the systems are as follows:
- An HPE EX-4000 system with 127,488 AMD EPYC “Genoa” compute cores and 64 AMD MI-250 General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs), supported by 335 terabytes of memory and 17 petabytes of usable storage, including 2 petabytes of NVMe-based solid state storage.
- An HPE EX-2500 system with 57,600 AMD EPYC “Genoa” compute cores supported by 135 terabytes of memory and 13 petabytes of usable storage, including 2 petabytes of NVMe-based solid state storage.
The systems are expected to enter production service in calendar year 2023.
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 DoD 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 U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center located in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
For more information, visit our website at:https://www.hpc.mil.
The Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) completed a portion of its fiscal year 2022 investment in supercomputing capability supporting the DoD Science and Technology (S&T), Test and Evaluation (T&E), and Acquisition Engineering (AE) communities. The acquisition consists of a single supercomputing system with corresponding hardware and software maintenance services. At 9 petaFLOPs, this procurement will increase the DoD HPCMP's aggregate supercomputing capability to ~120 petaFLOPs. This system significantly enhances the Program’s capability to support the Department of Defense’s most demanding computational challenges.
The new supercomputer will be installed at the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC), and will serve users from all the services and agencies of the Department.
The ERDC DSRC in Vicksburg, MS, will receive an HPE EX system containing AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors. The architecture of the system is as follows:
- An HPE EX-4000 system of 277,248 AMD EPYC “Genoa” compute cores, 563 terabytes of memory, 5 petabytes of usable storage, including 4 PB of NVMe-based solid state storage, and compute access to the center’s centralized storage
The system is expected to enter production service in calendar year 2023.
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 DoD 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 U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center located in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
For more information, visit our website at:https://www.hpc.mil.
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The HPCMP is pleased to announce its Call for FY 2015 DoD Dedicated HPC Project Investment (DHPI) Proposals. These are defined as two to three-year mission critical projects requiring small laboratory or test center on-site HPC systems. All proposals must be submitted by e-mail to the appropriate Service/Agency High Performance Computing Advisory Panel (HPCAP) Principal by 17 July 2014. It is anticipated that DHPI awards will be announced by 1 November 2014.
Read the Call [PDF Version]
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The High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) invites pre-proposals for projects to be executed under its new applications software productivity activities within the Department.
As the High Performance Computing (HPC) Application Software Institutes projects enter the end of their planned lifetimes, the HPCMP recognizes that hardware architecture is continuing to evolve while the department's computational challenges become even more varied and complex. HASI will address the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation community's continuing need for modern application software that incorporates the latest understanding of physical phenomena and which executes effectively and efficiently on next generation high performance computers.
For proposal instructions please refer to the HASI Pre-Proprosal Call [PDF Version]
Read the Memo [PDF Version].
All pre-proposals must be submitted by e-mail to the HPCMP at HASI [at] hpc.mil
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The HPCMP is pleased to announce its Call for FY 2016 DoD Frontier Project Proposals. All Frontier Proposals must be submitted by e-mail to the appropriate Service/Agency High Performance Computing Advisory Panel (HPCAP) Principal by 30 April 2015.
For proposal instructions, please refer to the Call for FY 2016 Frontier Project Proposals [Word Version] and the Call for FY 2016 Frontier Project Proposals Memo [PDF Version] documents.
Please send an email to frontier [at] hpc.mil with any questions.