HPCwire

The U.S Department of Defense has just revealed eight new major contracts for a diverse range of agencies, including the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Defense Logistics Agency. All told, the DoD laid down word on over $212 million in new investments. In the midst of large equipment contracts for Lockheed Martin, medical and surgical equipment, and steel armories, one name stood out from the rest due to its relevance here. Cray has been was awarded a $21,800,000 modification to a current contract to acquire a “balanced, commercially available, production-grade high performance computing systems to conduct complex, large-scale scientific calculations at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory DoD Supercomputing Resource Center.”  The project is expected to be complete in July of 2018 with work will be performed at Wright-Patterson, Air Force Base, Ohio and via the Army Corps of Engineers in Huntsville, Alabama, which is where the project originates. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/02/03/cray-grabs-43-million-military-contracts/.