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The Department of Defense will implement high performance storage company DDN‘s EXAScaler ES400X appliances in conjunction with Penguin Computing’s [...]

Officials can access new office space, conference rooms—and high-performance capabilities—in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

VICKSBURG, Miss., Jan. 25, 2022 — The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s (ERDC) Information Technology Lab (ITL) held a ribbon cutting

For the next five years, the Corps of Engineers is no longer required to seek Office of the Secretary of Defense approval for the acquisition of supercomputers – the computing

A number of new and powerful machines are being built and installed for federal agencies.

Senate appropriators have proposed significant increases for defense R&D programs for fiscal year 2022, including a 12% boost to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, while House appropriators propose a topline cut for the early-stage research budget.

The program frees up precious governmental resources and helps garner key insights on reducing future storms destruction. ...

As Moore’s law slows, HPC developers are increasingly looking for speed gains in specialized code and specialized hardware – but this specialization, in turn, can make testing and deploying code trickier than ever. Now, researchers from Texas A&M University, the University of Illinois at Urbana...

How Supercomputing and Advanced X-Rays Helped the Government Fight COVID-19 Timofeev Vladimir/Shutterstock.com email Government-backed scientists spent countless hours in 2020 applying advanced research and sophisticated technological capabilities to help the United States better grasp and effectively fight COVID-19. Much of their efforts built on prior work that started unfolding long before the pandemic even posed a threat, but modern, real-world impacts hastened by the gl...

Army Research Lab Announces Acquisition of Two New Supercomputers Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock email Two new supercomputers are set to join the Defense Department’s stock of sophisticated machines.  The Army Research Laboratory, which houses the Pentagon’s Supercomputing Resource Center, announced the fresh acquisition this week. Among other systems, the new and advanced computers will push the center towards establishing a cumulative capability of more than 23 petaflops of...