Cray sells MTA super to Logicon for the US Naval Research LaboratorySeattle 07 February 2001 Cray has received a $5.4 million order for a Cray MTA-2 multithreaded supercomputer system and related services from Logicon Inc., a Northrop Grumman NOC company. The order is for a 28-processor, Cray MTA-2 system with 112 Gbytes of memory to be installed in the fourth quarter, 2001, at the facilities of the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Cray did install a first MTA supercomputer at SDSC in San Diego.
NRL is a leading-edge Distributed Center within the DoD High
Performance Computing Modernization Program. As a leading-edge center,
NRL's mission is to explore and evaluate innovative and new computing
and networking technologies.
The researchers will investigate the Cray MTA-2 system's
performance on major challenges in the physical, computational and
informational sciences, including dynamically adaptive meshes and
problems benefiting from advanced scalability and networking.
The Cray MTA-2 multithreaded system represents a fundamental
breakthrough in computer design, according to Rottsolk. The system
supports up to 128 RISC-like hardware streams per processor and
provides bandwidth that scales efficiently with the number of
processors.
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the Navy's corporate
laboratory. NRL conducts a broadly-based multidisciplinary program of
scientific research and advanced technological development directed
toward maritime applications of new and improved materials,
techniques, equipment, system, and ocean, atmospheric, and space
sciences and related technologies.
NRL has approximately 3,300 personnel (over 1900 research staff --
nearly half of these PhD's) who address basic research issues
concerning the Navy's environment of sea, sky, and space. The
Laboratory's parent organization is the Office of Naval Research
(ONR).
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