Order for Cray SV1 supercomputer from U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense CommandSeattle 13 June 2001 Cray Inc. received an order from the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) for a Cray SV1 supercomputer with scheduled enhancements. Financial terms were not disclosed.
SMDC will use the system to run complex simulations in support of its national defense initiatives, and will upgrade its Cray SV1 system to Cray SV1ex processors, each with a peak performance of two billion calculations per second (gigaflops). Madison Research Corporation is the operations and integration contractor for the SMDC Simulation Center. The 16-processor Cray SV1 supercomputer will be installed at SMDC's Battle Lab at its Simulation Center in Huntsville, Alabama, replacing a Cray J916 system. It is a component of the resources available through the SMDC partnership as a DoD High Performance Computing Modernisation Programme Distributed Center. The Battle Lab supports experimentation, conducts analyses in support of materiel development activities and requirements determination, performs science and technology reviews, assesses advanced concepts, and analytically supports the definition of future space and missile defense architectures. "Since announcing the SV1ex's stronger-than-anticipated performance and more-attractive price/performance last month, we've seen increased interest in our SV1 product line,'' said Cray Inc. chairman and CEO Jim Rottsolk. "New orders from long-time vector customers like SMDC reinforce our leadership and momentum at the top end of the HPC market.''
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