Artic Region Supercomputing Center buys Cray SV1 supercomputerSeattle 06 September 2000 The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC)has signed a US$3 million order for a 32-processor Cray SV1 supercomputer. ARSC's academic and government researchers will use the new system to study atmospheric, environmental and geophysical problems unique to the Arctic, polar regions and high latitudes.
The agreement includes
an option to acquire a next-generation Cray SV2 system, due out in
the second half of 2002.
The Cray SV1 system will support applications such as climate
forecasting models that examine ocean-ice-atmosphere-land interaction,
models of volcanic ash plumes that threaten aircraft traveling in the
Arctic, models of global surface air temperature trends and oil
reservoir simulations.
The new Cray SV1 supercomputer will be installed in three stages
at the ARSC facility within the Fairbanks main campus. The new system
replaces a 12-processor Cray J90 supercomputer and is expected to
complete the stage-one customer acceptance process in September.
Stage one includes the delivery of a new Cray SV1 computer
chassis, Cray SV1 CPUs and memory, and networking and peripheral
equipment. Stage two, in the first quarter of 2001, will upgrade the
Cray SV1 to faster CPUs. In second-quarter 2001, stage three will
upgrade the system to larger, faster memory.
ARSC supports high-performance computational research by U.S.
Department of Defense and academic researchers in science and
engineering with an emphasis on the high latitudes and the Arctic. The
Center also operates a 272-processor Cray T3E supercomputer with
69.6 gigabytes of memory.
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