HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING MODERNIZATION PROGRAM

Abstract

This project enables the Defense research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) community to resolve critical scientific and engineering problems more quickly, and with more precision, using advanced, physics-based computer simulation supported by high performance computing (HPC) technology. The computational expertise and resources enable DoD personnel to analyze phenomena that are often impossible, not cost effective, too time-consuming, or too dangerous to study any other way. The High Performance Modernization Program (HPCMP) supports the requirements of the DoD's scientists and engineers in three major areas of effort: supercomputing resource centers, the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN), and support for software applications. DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs) provide extensive capabilities and demonstrate new technologies that address user requirements for hardware, software, and programming environments. Efforts of the DSRCs are augmented by dedicated HPC project investments (DHPIs) that address near real-time and real-time HPC requirements. The total aggregate computational capability is roughly 1.8 quadrillion floating point operations per second (1.8 petaFLOPS); this capability is expected to double by 2013. All sites in the HPC Modernization Program are interconnected to one another, the user community, and major defense sites via the DREN, a research network which matures and demonstrates state of the art computer network technologies. The DREN interconnects 45 user and center sites at network speeds of up to 3 gigabits per second. The Software Application Support (SAS) effort optimizes and improves the performance of critical common DoD applications programs to run efficiently on advanced HPC systems, matures and demonstrates leading-edge computational technology from academic and commercial partners, and provides collaborative programming environments. Work in this project supports the Army S&T Enduring Portfolio. The cited work is consistent with the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Science and Technology priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. The HPCMP transferred from the Office Secretary of Defense to the Department of the Army in FY12.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: DS7_0603461A_3_2040_PB_2013

Tags

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Parallel and Distributed Computing.