U.S. Army Supercomputer Center to install 512-processor SGI Origin 3000Mountain View 09 April 2001 The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center Major Shared Resource Center (ERDC MSRC) has installed a420 Gflop/s 512-processor SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer.
ERDC MSRC's SGI Origin 3800 machine, the largest shared-memory
system in the SGI Origin 3000 server series, is the first single-system
image of its kind in the Department of Defense (DoD) High-Performance
Computing Modernization Program. This single-system image consists of
512 processors attached to shared memory and an input/output subsystem,
all of which are connected by the IRIX operating system from
SGI.
The SGI Origin 3800 server is configured with 512 MIPS R12000 400
MHz processors, 410 Gflop/s of computational capacity, 512GB of
aggregate memory size and 4 Tbyteof hardware disk storage. SGI
NUMAflex , the unique modular approach to supercomputing from SGI,
allows customers such as the ERDC MSRC to efficiently build and scale a
512-processor single-system image using the industry's only third-generation
NUMA architecture.
The ERDC MSRC specializes in five DoD-designated computational technology areas,
including computational structural mechanics, computational fluid dynamics,
climate/weather/ocean modeling and simulation, forces modeling and simulation and
environmental quality modeling and simulation.
ERDC is the premier research and development laboratory for the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, providing critical research in the areas of civil engineering, environmental quality
and environmental sciences. Originally established as an Army supercomputer center in 1989,
ERDC became the first Major Shared Resource Center in 1993 as part of the DoD HPC
Modernization Program.
A collaborator in the SGI Origin 3800 server project at ERDC MSRC is the Arctic
Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Now that the
machine is configured as a 512-processor single system image, ARSC will be the first to scale
some of its applications beyond the previous 256-processor barrier.
The ERDC MSRC's prime integration contractor, Computer Sciences Corp.
operates the center's HPC computational systems that address DoD user requirements for
hardware, software, programming environments and training. Authorized government, industry
and academic researchers have access to the ERDC MSRC's HPC systems through the Defense
Research and Engineering Network and the Internet.
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