U.S. Department of Defense to Use HP Supercomputer for Weapons Systems Design
July 19th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 39 times, 1 so far today
U.S. Department of Defense to Use HP Supercomputer for Weapons Systems Design
HP today announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) will be using an HP supercomputer for advanced weapons systems design research.
The powerful HP Cluster Platform 4000 system will be installed in September at the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
The 10-teraflop system will enable the DoD to accelerate its research and collaboration on advanced weapons concepts, improve and speed up modification programs, enhance simulation programs and enable more efficient tests and evaluations. (A teraflop is a measure of computer speed and equates to a trillion floating-point operations per second).
The HP supercomputer is a 1,024-node Cluster Platform 4000 based on HP ProLiant DL145 servers with AMD Opteronâ„¢ processors running the Linux operating system. A high-speed Voltaire InfiniBand interconnect is used with HP’s XC System Software providing cluster management capability.
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