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.

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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.

NEWS RELEASE

The Maui High Performance Computing Center, as one of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program's (HPCMP) Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRC), just contracted with IBM to deliver a cluster solution based on IBM's POWER8 server with high-performance, high-bandwidth, NVIDIA GP100 graphical processing units (GPUs). The total life-cycle investment is valued at $2 million.

The IBM cluster will conjointly provide 458,752 GPU cores integrated with NVLink 1.0. NVLink is a high-bandwidth interconnect that enables communication between a GPU and CPU, and also between GPUs. NVlink supports data transfer rates much greater than that of PCIe. This mitigates the bottleneck of data transfers between processing units, thus resulting in greater application performance. The IBM cluster will be named Hōkūle'a, which means "star of gladness" in Hawaiian, and refers to a star used by ancient Hawaiians in wayfinding techniques of celestial navigation.

Utilizing the GPUs, Hōkūle'a will provided over 690 TFLOPs of supercomputing. As its name implies, it will be used as a test system to evaluate the performance of this novel architecture for DoD-specific software. We anticipate delivery in December of 2016.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The DoD HPCMP provides the DoD supercomputing capabilities, high-speed network communications and computational science expertise that enable DoD scientists and engineers to conduct a wide-range of focused research, development and test 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 complete 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 DoD by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Miss. For more information, please visit the DoD HPCMP Web site at: www.hpc.mil.

For Immediate Release:                                                            Contact: Dr. Douglass Post

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HPCMP CREATE TEAM AWARDED AT NDIA CONFERENCE

Springfield, VA:  On October 24^th, the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) CREATE Team was awarded the Lt Gen Thomas R. Ferguson, Jr. Systems Engineering Excellence Award for 2017 at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Systems Engineering conference. The award was accepted by Dr. Douglass Post, Associate Director for CREATE, on behalf of the 180 government personnel and support contractors in the CREATE program.

The award criteria include promotion of robust systems engineering principles, effective systems engineering process development, increased mission capability and substantially increased performance.  The award recognized the CREATE team’s determined pursuit of a vision to enable fundamental change in defense acquisition via high performance computing and multi-disciplinary, physics-based software. The team’s accomplishments in software engineering across multiple military and technical domains greatly improves DoD’s ability to design and develop the advanced weapons systems to defend the nation.

The team’s efforts and rigorous software development practices have provided the DoD with government-owned tools that enable cost, schedule, and risk reduction in weapons system acquisition, and improved warfighting capability.

For the official announcement, please see the NDIA website: http://www.ndia.org/about/media/press-releases/2017/10/26/ferguson

For Immediate Release:                                                            Contact: Dr. Douglass Post

Release Number: 17-1                                                        Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

HPCMP CREATE TEAM AWARDED AT NDIA CONFERENCE

Springfield, VA:  On October 24^th, the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) CREATE Team was awarded the Lt Gen Thomas R. Ferguson, Jr. Systems Engineering Excellence Award for 2017 at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Systems Engineering conference. The award was accepted by Dr. Douglass Post, Associate Director for CREATE, on behalf of the 180 government personnel and support contractors in the CREATE program.

The award criteria include promotion of robust systems engineering principles, effective systems engineering process development, increased mission capability and substantially increased performance.  The award recognized the CREATE team’s determined pursuit of a vision to enable fundamental change in defense acquisition via high performance computing and multi-disciplinary, physics-based software. The team’s accomplishments in software engineering across multiple military and technical domains greatly improves DoD’s ability to design and develop the advanced weapons systems to defend the nation.

The team’s efforts and rigorous software development practices have provided the DoD with government-owned tools that enable cost, schedule, and risk reduction in weapons system acquisition, and improved warfighting capability.

For the official announcement, please see the NDIA website: http://www.ndia.org/about/media/press-releases/2017/10/26/ferguson