Cray will deliver a Cray T3E to the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development CenterSeattle 26 September 2001 Cray has received an order for a Cray T3E supercomputer system upgrade to be placed at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). The subcontract with Computer Sciences Corporation, ERDC's Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) integration contractor, calls for a Cray T3E system upgrade to be completed in the third quarter of 2001. The upgrade will increase the Cray T3E configuration from 512 to 768 application processors.
The ERDC MSRC is a premier
provider of high performance computing (HPC) services and support to
the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing
Modernization Program (HPCMP), supporting more than 5,000 scientists
and engineers engaged in DoD research and development activities.
The center operates high-performance systems from multiple vendors
to address DoD user requirements. With this upgrade, the center's Cray
T3E system remains the center's premier highly scalable resource for
problems demanding extremely high performance. The Cray T3E system is
widely recognized as the most technically successful highly scalable
computer and set the world record for sustained performance on a full
64-bit application.
"We have upgraded our T3E several times over the past five years.
The system continues to be the chosen resource in the center to
reliably address very large problems. For example, 10 percent of the
T3E jobs use 65 percent of all CPU cycles consumed. We are very
pleased about offering this increased capability to the DoD
community," said Bradley Comes, director of the ERDC Major Shared
Resource Center.
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