NAVO MSRC Navigator. Spring 2001
Abstract
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Primary Oceanographic Prediction System (POPS) supercomputer center here at the Naval Oceanographic Office. The POPS center, the forerunner of the present NAVO MSRC, initially offered its user community a CRAY Y-MP/8 system with 2.7 gigaflops of peak computing capability. Significantly, it was established to simultaneously serve both research and development (R&D) and operational high performance computing (HPC) requirements within the Navy. Over the past ten years, the center has increased its computing capacity 1000-fold while continuing to serve both the Department of Defense (DoD) R&D and Navy operational HPC needs. The focus on combined R&D and operational HPC processing within one center has yielded significant benefits to DoD, including high systems availability, resilient networking and storage infrastructure and has dramatically improved scheduling of the largest HPC applications. These applications include those associated with the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) challenge projects and the time-critical, global-scale HPC applications for the operational Navy community, which must run multiple times every day of the year.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA526758
Entities
Organizations
- Naval Oceanographic Office