Four US supercomputer centers wins major US Defense contractColumbus 30 May 2001 The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $108 million contract to OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Mississippi State University (MSU) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).Contract work will begin on June 1, 2001, with a three-year basic contract and up to five one-year extension options. The total portion granted to OSC is at least $27 million during a performance period of up to eight years.
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $108 million contract to OSC (Ohio
Supercomputer Center), Mississippi State University (MSU) and the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC).
The Programming Environment and Training (PET) consortium will work with the
DoD's High Performance Computing Modernization Program to provide research
expertise, education and training, and technical support for computing
resources. SDSC researchers will be leading efforts in education, outreach and
training (EOT) and enabling technologies
"We are very excited about winning this award. We have enjoyed working with DoD
researchers over the past few years, and this award ensures that our team will
play a very large role in working with them to push scientific and technology
frontiers for the next eight years," said Jay Boisseau, a co-PI on the proposal
and the associate director for Scientific Computing at SDSC. "This award
represents proof of our team's past successes and also DoD's confidence in our
abilities to contribute world-class computational expertise to leading-edge
scientific research."
The contract is one of the largest in DoD history for academic research and
builds on SDSC's involvement over the past five years with the PET program of
the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) Major Shared Resource Center. The new
consortium will work with the Army Engineering Research and Development Center
at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center in
Dayton, Ohio, as well as NAVO.
OSC competed nationally in conjunction with the other two centers for the
contract. This award to support the High Performance Computing Modernization
Program is one of the largest in Defense Department history to further
academic research and training.
Dr. Charlie Bender, OSC Executive Director, will be one of the
co-principal investigators. Dr. Dick Pritchard, OSC Director of Federal
Programs, will be the overall program manager. Some of the research will be
handled by the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Civil Engineering at
The Ohio State University.
The full Department of Defense program is divided into four components. As
part of the contract, the OSC team will support three of the four major
Defense Department high performance computing centers, including the Wright
Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton.
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