The Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) is pleased to announce new supercomputing capabilities supporting the DoD Science and Technology (S&T), Test and Evaluation (T&E), and Acquisition Engineering (AE) communities. The acquisition consists of two supercomputing systems with corresponding hardware and software maintenance services. At 10.6 petaFLOPs, this procurement will increase the DoD HPCMP's aggregate supercomputing capability to 57 petaFLOPs. These systems significantly enhance the HPCMP’s capability to support DoD’s most demanding computational challenges, and include significant capabilities for artificial intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning.

The new supercomputers will be installed at the US Army Combat Capabilities Developmental Command Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs), and will serve users from all of the services and agencies of the Department.

• The ARL DSRC in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, will receive a Cray CS500 system containing AMD EPYC (Rome) processors. The architecture of the system is as follows: A single system of 102,400 AMD EPYC “Rome” compute cores, 292 NVIDIA Volta V100 General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) supported by 350 TB of NVMe-based solid-state storage, 446 terabytes of memory, and 11 petabytes of usable disk storage.
• The ERDC DSRC at Vicksburg, Mississippi, will receive a Cray CS500 system containing AMD EPYC (Rome) processors. The architecture of the system is as follows:   A single system of 80,320 AMD EPYC “Rome” compute cores, 16 NVIDIA Volta V100 General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) supported by 30 TB of NVMe-based solid-state storage, 320 terabytes of memory, and 15 petabytes of usable storage.

The systems are expected to enter production service early in calendar year 2020.