NAVO MSRC Navigator. Fall 2000
Abstract
The past several months have been notable ones here at the NAVO MSRC. We've completed a sweeping series of center enhancements, designated as Performance Level 3 (PL3), across all major technology areas within the MSRC. The present PL3 HPC systems provide a thousand-fold increase in aggregate peak computing performance (i.e., 3.2 teraflops) when compared to the aggregate peak capability (3.2 gigaflops) of the Primary Oceanographic Prediction System Supercomputer Center when it was established here at NAVOCEANO in 1990. This enormous computational capability, coupled with a sustained 10-year NAVOCEANO focus on supporting the largest and most demanding DoD computational applications, has enabled unparalleled advances in several of the key DoD science and technology areas served by the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). With all of this diverse computational capability that's been fielded across more than 20 shared resource centers (SRCs) by the HPCMP, it has become critically important for us to redouble our efforts in assessing and implementing common user environments, practices, and tools within and across the SRCs. Your individual and collective user feedback at forums such as Program Review 2000, HPC Users Group 2000, and HPCAP/SRCAP meetings, makes it clear that you consider this to be one of your highest priorities for the SRCs. In response, the SRCs have undertaken or intensified strategic cross-cutting collaborative efforts in enabling technical areas such as mass storage and archival, metacomputing, HPCMP wide shared information environments, and security. We've supplemented those efforts with a Programming Environment and Training (PET) program that's more tightly focused than ever on user environment, tools, and productivity. We've also formally added an Inter-MSRC Facilitator (IMF) component to our user support organization. The IMF's primary function is two-fold: (1) to quickly engage and resolve user requests/issues which span mul
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA526756
Entities
Organizations
- Naval Oceanographic Office