The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, based in Huntsville, Alabama, was the contracting activity.
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Last year, Wright-Patterson pulled back the curtain on the multi-million dollar supercomputers there that support classified data work for missions across the Defense Department.
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), a year ago, unveiled the first-ever “Shared Above-Secret Department of Defense High Performance Computing Capability” at its Supercomputing Resource Center, one of only four such sites supported by the Pentagon.
Jeff Graham — director of the AFRL Defense Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) — said the new capability will save billions, while providing access to state-of-the-art computing.
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“The way organizations have done this in the past is they’ve built facilities and bought their own supercomputers to do their own work,” Kelly Dalton, technical director at the center, told the Dayton Daily News last year. “We have a new approach where we’re going to share these computers across different projects. In doing so, (the department is) not building all those facilities and buying all that equipment.”.
It was to be the first time the center would support high classification computing, Dalton said.
Five years ago, Cray also won a $30.75 million contract to provide high-performance computing resources at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
Cray specializes in supercomputers, open-systems data storage, and analytics for data.
Messages seeking comment were sent Monday to spokespeople for Cray/Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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