SGI Altix Enters Production
The ARL DSRC has acquired three SGI Altix ICE Linux clusters as part of the DoD's High Performance Computing Modernization Program's (HPCMP) Technology Insertion 2009 (TI-09) program, and are a huge addition to the capacity of the center. The new SGI systems arrived at the ARL DSRC in June 2009 and production usage began in October 2009. After installation of the Supercomputers, the customer service team and administrators completed the system configuration, installation of COTS codes, and integration of the new queuing system, the PBS Pro batch scheduler system.
The first system, Harold, is a 10,752 core system (2,688 Quad core processors) with 32 TB system memory and 600 TB of local disk storage space, which is more than double the disk space of the MJM machine. The second system, Tow, has 6,656 cores with 52.2 TB system memory and 400 TB of local storage capacity, and the third TI-09 cluster is a test and development system with 96 cores that supports the other two larger systems. The addition of these supercomputers at the ARL DSRC has increased the center's total processing power to over 350 Teraflops (Trillion Floating points operations per second), significantly enhancing DoD scientists' and researchers' ability to investigate challenging projects involving increased fidelity by applying more computational cycles.
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