HPE Helps U.S. Department of Defense to Advance National Defense Capabilities
February 20 2018 - 1:26PM
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) today announced it has been
selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to provide new
supercomputers for the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization
Program (HPCMP) to accelerate the development and acquisition of
advanced national security capabilities. The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, Alabama,
awarded the contract.
As part of the agreement, HPE will deliver HPE SGI 8600 systems
and services to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) DoD
Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) and the Navy DSRC at a
combined total contract value of $57 million.
The four HPE SGI 8600 systems, to be located at the AFRL DSRC at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, will support research including
hypersonics and computational modeling of current and advanced air,
naval, and ground weapon systems and platforms. The three systems
to be installed at the Navy DSRC will support advanced weapons
capabilities and provide high reliability for the Navy's global
weather modeling requirements.
“In our data-driven world, supercomputing is increasingly
becoming a key to stay ahead of competition – this applies to
national defense just as to commercial enterprises,” said Bill
Mannel, vice president and general manager, HPC and AI, Hewlett
Packard Enterprise. “The DoD’s continuous investment in
supercomputing innovation is a clear testament to this development
and an important contribution to U.S. national security. HPE has
been a strategic partner with the HPCMP for two decades, and we are
proud that the DoD now significantly extends this partnership,
acknowledging HPE’s sustained leadership in high performance
computing.”
Introduced in 2017, the HPE SGI 8600 is a sixth-generation
system designed to solve the world’s most complex problems in areas
ranging from life, earth, and space sciences, to engineering,
manufacturing and national security. Powering some of the fastest
supercomputers in the world, it offers petaflops speed and
scalability to thousands of nodes in an efficient and easy to
manage architecture. The system features an extremely efficient
liquid cooling solution which does not exhaust heated air into the
data center.
The four HPE SGI 8600 systems delivered to the AFRL DSRC are
running with 24-core Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors on an Intel®
Omni-Path Architecture fabric. These systems will provide more than
7.3 petaflops of compute capability and more than 12 petabytes of
usable storage, leveraging DDN® EXAScaler® technology, a
high-performance parallel distributed file system based on
Lustre.
The three HPE SGI 8600 Systems delivered to the Navy DSRC are
also running with 24-core Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors on an
Intel® Omni-Path Architecture fat-tree fabric. These systems will
provide 6.8 petaflops of compute capability and more than 12
petabytes of usable storage, based on DDN® EXAScaler®.
As part of the contract awards, HPE will also provide five years
of 24/7 system support, including on-site system administration and
applications support personnel from HPE.
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