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07.26.05
Defense Department Buying HP Supercomputer
 By David Utter
Weapons design and other projects have been slated for the 1,024 node Linux-based
cluster.
The Department has designated the Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared
Resource Center (MSRC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, according to
a press release.
The cluster will be capable of 10 teraflops, or 10 trillion floating-point operations
per second. In a win for AMD, its Opteron processors will be on-board the HP ProLiant
145 servers delivered to the ASC MSRC.
"This deployment further illustrates the market's acceptance of cluster technologies
for supercomputing challenges in real world deployments," said Winston Prather,
vice president and general manager, High Performance Computing Division, HP.
HP also has orders for a smaller 8-node development system at Wright-Patterson,
and a 46-node system for Arnold Air Force Base in Tullahoma, Tennessee. At ASC
MSRC, the HP machines will join a variety of SGI, Sun, and Compaq hardware already
in place.
The ASC MSRC provides high performance computing resources to a variety of Defense
projects. They emphasize particular computational tasks, like fluid dynamics,
structural mechanics, and nano-electronics.
Government Gets Groovy With Microsoft
By David Utter
Microsoft subsidiary Groove Networks will work with government defense contractor
General Dynamics on collaboration solutions.
A business unit of General Dynamics will use Groove
Virtual Office as it develops enterprise-wide solutions for the Departments
of Defense and Homeland Security, and for the intelligence community.
Beverly, Mass.-based Groove has worked with
previously, on initiatives including DARPA, where the Internet was first developed.
Recently the two worked on the Cyber Counterterrorism Investigations Training
Program run by the DHS's Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center (FLETC). The program helps federal law enforcement officials
better understand terrorist groups' Internet presence.
In Baghdad, Groove's technology has been used by the State Department to coordinate
the reopening of the US Embassy. The Groove Virtual Office allows for sharing
of knowledge over vast geographic distances. US Army Corps of Engineers and the
National Science Foundation also count among its government users.
About the Author:
David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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