ANTEON CORPORATION AWARDED $53.8 MIL CONTRACT BY NAVAL SEA LOGISTICS CENTER.

Anteon Corporation, a leading information technology and engineering solutions company, has been awarded a contract for logistics, engineering and technical services by the Naval Sea Logistics Center. This multiple-award, cost-plus incentive fee contract is valued at $53.8 million over 3.5 years, assuming all options are exercised. One other firm received a prime contract at the time of award. The contracting agency is the Fleet Industrial Supply Center, Detachment Philadelphia.

Under the contract, Anteon will provide logistics, engineering and technical support services to the SGI Onyx 3000 series was the MIPS R12000 processor. SGI is now offering the SGI Origin 3000 series and the SGI Onyx 3000 series with the faster MIPS R14000 processors. Based on the revolutionary SGI NUMAflex modular brick concept, each drawer-like module in the SGI Origin 3000 series and the SGI Onyx 3000 series has a specific function. The C-brick (CPU module) accommodates up to four R14000 processors.

"The improvement in computing power from 56 400 MHz R12000 chips to 156 500 MHz R14000 processors with 8MB L2 cache and 1:1 processor-to-cache ratio has allowed us and the research community that we serve to tackle some very big data problems in new ways," said Dardy. "By scaling our SGI Origin 3800 and our SGI Onyx 3400 supercomputers to this next level of performance, researchers will be able to make unprecedented breakthroughs to advance science more quickly and sustain gigabyte data flows necessary for optimum distributed computing and visualization."

The mission of the Center for Computational Science (CCS), an NRL organization within the Information Technology Division, is to provide the Navy community with pathfinder access to state-of-the-art, high-performance computing and communications capabilities and to provide research computational services. The center services the NRL, the Office of Naval Research and other clients within the DoD.

The CCS is a partner in the DoD's High-Performance Computing Modernization Program, where it fills a unique role as the leading-edge center for the introduction of next-generation computing technology through its evaluation of commercial technologies that leverage DoD investments and national security information assurance needs. The center interacts with NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and National Science Foundation metacenter sites nationwide and participates in the Advanced Technology Demonstration Network to prototype information and communications technologies for the Joint Vision 2020 military strategy, a leading-edge activity of the Next Generation Internet initiative.