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Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (DSRC) Doubles Its Computing Power
The Dell system has been designated with the Hawaiian name "Mana." Mana is a spiritual quality considered to have supernatural origin - a sacred power of the elemental forces of nature embodied in an object or person. To have mana is to have influence and authority - the power to perform.
Mana is based on Dell's new PowerEdge M610 series with half-height blade architecture, arranged in 1,152 compute nodes, each with two, 2.8 GHz quad-core Intel Nehalem processors and 24 GB RAM (3 GB/core) - a total of 2,304 processors with 9,216 compute cores. The interconnect fabric is Dual Data Rate Infiniband, and the system is configured with nearly 300 TB of direct-attached, DataDirect disk.
This acquisition is the largest in the history of the MHPCC DSRC and their second significant purchase from Dell. This procurement's computational capacity will advance MHPCC to the forefront of High Performance Computing and re-establish it among the leaders in the Department of Defense research and development community. The MHPCC DSRC continues to leverage these world class technologies, accelerating our nation's ability to meet its most demanding challenges. This new system will augment the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program's (HPCMP) array of High Performance Computing resources.
The DoD HPCMP was initiated in 1992 to modernize the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing capabilities. The DoD HPCMP's mission is to accelerate the development and transition of advanced defense technologies into superior warfighting capabilities by exploiting and strengthening U.S. leadership in supercomputing, communications, and computational modeling. The MHPCC DSRC is one of the six Supercomputing Resource Centers in the DoD HPCMP, and will allocate more than 70,000,000 computational hours to the HPCMP with the introduction of Mana. The MHPCC DSRC is a world class national resource chartered to support a diverse base of DoD and other government users, facilitating the collaborations needed to solve today's complex computational problems.
