HPE signed the delivery contract of seven supercomputers to the Pentagon for $57 million

In February, 2018 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) received from the U.S. Department of Defense the delivery contract of seven new supercomputers within the long-term project of upgrade of high-performance HPCMP computing    systems (High Performance Computing Modernization Program).

Order cost is $57 million. Here supplies of equipment, five years' round-the-clock support of HPE, service of administration on places and providing to the Pentagon access to personnel of support of the HPE applications enter.

HPE SGI 8600

All seven supercomputers which HPE will deliver by request of the American Ministry of Defence are the HPE SGI 8600 systems. Four of them will be set in Research laboratory of the U.S. Air Force (   Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL) based on  the Air Force  Wright-Patterson, and other three will unroll in the Center of supercomputer resources  (Supercomputing Resource Center) at US Navy.

Clusters of HPE SGI 8600 for the Air Force received the 24-core Intel Xeon processors Scalable with Intel Omni-Path technology. Overall performance of four supercomputers for AFRL will exceed 7.3 petaFLOPS, and the capacity of a storage system of DDN Lustre will be more than 12 PBytes. The staff of AFRL will use new computers from HPE for carrying out researches in the field of a hyper sound and computer simulation of weapon systems of the Air Force.

Computer systems for US Navy in general will resemble, but their total power will be measured 6.8 petaFLOPS. They will be applied to development of modern arms for needs of the Navies and global modeling of weather.

The HPE SGI 8600 system is submitted in 2017. It is not based on the HPE Proliant servers as other solutions of Apollo, and uses the updated SGI ICE XA platform for which the American producer carried out rebranding.^[1]

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