The multi-year
"Silicon Graphics is honored to provide these premier DOD facilities with
the high-performance compute, storage and service solutions needed to handle
some of the most advanced computing challenges in the world," said Silicon
Graphics CEO
Silicon Graphics captured the lion's share of 2009 HPCMP program contracts by demonstrating the superior performance of its SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE 8200 systems based on the next-generation Intel(R) Xeon(R) processors (codenamed Nehalem). Complementing the extreme performance of the Altix ICE platform is a storage solution based on SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 4600 designed handle the DOD's tremendous I/O requirements efficiently and reliably.
Contributing to the selection of Silicon Graphics were usability factors associated with the Altix ICE systems and Silicon Graphics' long track record of delivering rapidly deployable solutions for the most demanding HPC environments. With a tightly integrated and modular design that simplifies deployment, the SGI Altix ICE platform allows customers to realize a return on their investment sooner than is possible with traditional supercomputer systems. The company also showed it could meet the power and space limitations of certain DOD sites, without sacrificing performance.
"To achieve breakthroughs in designing and testing next-generation materials and weapons systems, DOD researchers require high-performance systems that are scalable and reliable," said Cray Henry, director of the HPCMP for the Department of Defense. "Throughout our evaluation process, Silicon Graphics clearly demonstrated that it more than met these criteria. In addition, the DOD and HPCMP share a long history with Silicon Graphics. These major contracts will extend our partnership for years to come."
Silicon Graphics will equip the Army Research Laboratory DoD
Supercomputing Resource Center (
Silicon Graphics will also supply solutions under the HPCMP's Dedicated High Performance Computing (HPC) Project Investments (DHPI) which provides DoD sites with mid-sized systems for mission-critical projects with unique requirements that cannot be performed at a DSRC. These include:
-- Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio -- Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee -- Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Bethesda, Md.
AFRL and AEDC will leverage SGI Altix ICE 8200 technologies while NSWC will rely on SGI Altix 4700 and SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 200 solutions.
As the engine driving the DOD's new SGI Altix ICE systems, the Intel Nehalem processor is designed to deliver unprecedented performance and dynamic scalability.
"Driven by the energy-efficient performance of Intel's Xeon and Itanium
processor families, SGI's computers provide DOD engineers ideal HPC systems
for creating, simulating, visualizing and analyzing applications," said
About HPCMP
The HPCMP was initiated in 1992 in response to congressional direction to modernize the DOD laboratories' HPC capabilities. The HPCMP was assembled out of a collection of small high performance computing departments, each with a rich history of supercomputing experience that had independently evolved within the Army, Air Force, and Navy laboratories and test centers. The HPCMP provides the supercomputer services, high-speed network communications, and computational science expertise that enables the Defense laboratories and test centers 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 a greater certainty of success.
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (NASDAQ: SGIC), is a leader in high-
performance computing. SGI delivers a complete range of high-performance
server and storage solutions along with industry-leading professional services
and support that enable its customers to overcome the challenges of complex
data-intensive workflows and accelerate breakthrough discoveries, innovation
and information transformation. SGI solutions help customers solve their
computing challenges whether it's enhancing the quality of life through drug
research, designing and manufacturing safer and more efficient cars and
airplanes, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland
security and defense, or helping enterprises manage large data. With offices
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