Army high-performance computing center powered by SGI servers critical in assessing Missile Defense Systems.SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SGI) has announced that COLSA COLSA College of Life Sciences and Agriculture (University of New Hampshire) Corporation of Huntsville, Ala. has selected SGI Origin 3000 series servers as the central computing architecture for test beds located in the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Missile defence is an air defence system, weapon program, or technology involved in the detection, tracking, interception and destruction of attacking missiles. Originally conceived as a defence against nuclear-armed ICBMs, its application has broadened to include shorter-ranged Command's Advanced Research Center (ARC), used in support of new missile defense test and simulation programs managed by the Missile Defense Agency. COLSA installed a 32-processor SGI Origin 3400 server in April and a 64-processor SGI Origin 3800 server in September to support the ground-based Midcourse Defense Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) is a component of the national missile defense strategy of the United States administered by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. Previously known as National Missile Defense (NMD), the name was changed in 2002 to differentiate it from other missile elements and the High-Performance Computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. Center at the ARC. These acquisitions will enhance the ARC's already vast SGI compute resources supporting a number of national weapons systems and missile defense programs. Among the SGI supercomputers maintained at the high-performance computing facility are SGI Origin 2000 series systems with more than 500 processors and SGI Origin 3000 series systems with more than 96 processors to support various classified and unclassified un·clas·si·fied adj. 1. Not placed or included in a class or category: unclassified mail. 2. configurations. Powered by SGI technology, the ARC is critical in assessing the projected, alternative and demonstrated performance capabilities of Theater Missile Defense and National Missile Defense National Missile Defense (NMD) as a generic term is a military strategy and associated systems to shield an entire country against incoming Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs). The missiles could be intercepted by other missiles, or possibly by lasers. systems. At the heart of the center is a 15,000-square-foot room lined with row after row of SGI servers that drive large and complex modeling and simulation tools, requiring high-performance parallel-processing SGI supercomputers and advanced graphic workstations for their operation. "Since the early 1990s, SGI supercomputer and graphics systems have provided critical compute and visualization capabilities for many Missile Defense Agency programs, which must address the three phases of a missile's trajectory to engage threat targets in the boost, midcourse mid·course n. 1. The part of a missile flight between the end of the launching phase and reentry, during which corrective maneuvers are made. 2. The middle point of a course or of a course of action. and terminal phases of flight," said Tony Celeste Celeste is a woman's first name. Celeste may also refer to: in Music
The ARC operates in a Distributed Interactive Simulation Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) is an open standard for conducting real-time platform-level wargaming across multiple host computers and is used worldwide especially by military organizations but also by other agencies such as those involved in space exploration and environment and hosts the modeling and simulation war games that provide analysis, integration, demonstration and performance verification of missile defense systems. This cost-effective approach reduces the need for more costly live--fire missile test programs and establishes requirements for future technology needs. These computer resources at the ARC provide a multiple test bed environment to support the research and development activities within the Missile Defense Agency and military services. The operation and maintenance of the ARC has increased to respond to demands for more sophisticated technology and advanced software applications, as well as for expanding network capabilities and services. SGI also recently announced that COLSA Corporation of Huntsville, Ala. has selected SGI Origin 3000 series servers as the central computing architecture for test beds located in the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command's Advanced Research Center (ARC), used in support of new missile defense test and simulation programs managed by the Missile Defense Agency. COLSA installed a 32-processor SGI Origin 3400 server in April and a 64- processor SGI Origin 3800 server in September to support the ground-based Midcourse Defense elements and the High-Performance Computing Center at the ARC. These acquisitions will enhance the ARC's already vast SGI compute resources supporting a number of national weapons systems and missile defense programs. Among the SGI supercomputers maintained at the high-performance computing facility are SGI Origin 2000 series systems with more than 500 processors and SGI Origin 3000 series systems with more than 96 processors to support various classified and unclassified configurations. Powered by SGI technology, the ARC is critical in assessing the projected, alternative and demonstrated performance capabilities of Theater Missile Defense and National Missile Defense systems. At the heart of the center is a 15,000-square-foot room lined with row after row of SGI servers that drive large and complex modeling and simulation tools, requiring high-performance parallel-processing SGI supercomputers and advanced graphic workstations for their operation. |
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