4700 Processors News

15 Jul 2008

Naval Oceanographic Office to Get Major Supercomputer

The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) will house a powerful new IBM supercomputer that will substantially increase its computational capacity. "This new IBM system represents a tremendous increase in the center's computational capacity," said Tom Dunn, director of the computer center. The Navy uses the supercomputer center both for operations and for research projects. Navy oceanographers run and analyze ocean models for a variety of Navy operations. Researchers use the supercomputer center for DoD-approved research projects. The new supercomputer, a Power 575 Hydro-Cluster, has a peak speed of 90 teraflops (90 trillion floating-point operations per second)…