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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 16, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 24
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Special Features:
2ND LARGEST SUPERCOMPUTER NOW
GRID POWERED
Platform Computing announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has
selected Platform LSF, the foundation of Platform's Grid solutions, to power
its ASCI-Q (Advanced Simulation and Computing Initiative) supercomputer.
LANL's ASCI-Q supercomputer currently consists of two segments, each of which
consists of 1024 4-CPU HP AlphaServer ES45s. The first segment is ranked
number #2 on the 2002 Top500 supercomputers listing, with a peak performance
of 10 teraflops.
The Q Machine is part of the Department of Energy's National Nuclear
Security
Administration Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASCI) program that includes
the three U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) defense labs- Sandia National Labs
(Albuquerque, NM), Lawrence Livermore National Lab (Livermore, CA) and Los
Alamos National Lab (Los Alamos, NM).
Los Alamos will use Platform LSF to harness the aggregate computing power
across the supercomputer, which includes over 8000 CPUs, and to deliver the
massive compute power needed to conduct predictive nuclear weapon
simulations.
"High-fidelity, three-dimensional computer simulations of unprecedented
scale
running on ASCI supercomputers such as Q are crucial to the continued
certification of the nation's aging nuclear weapons stockpile in the absence
of underground testing," said Jim Danneskiold of Los Alamos.
"The Platform LSF deployment on LANL's ASCI Q extends our strong heritage
in
solving grand-challenge computing problems for various U.S. government
agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of Energy
and NASA," said Rene' Copeland, president, Platform Federal. "We expect Grid
computing infrastructures to become a backbone of national defense and
security in the years to come, supporting a seamless, immediate flow of
information among various government agencies for optimized security
operations."
Platform LSF is a workload management solution, providing a strong, proven
foundation for Grid computing. With its high performance, Grid-enabled
architecture, Platform LSF provides unprecedented scalability, performance and
flexibility to help organizations simplify the management of complex
computational workloads. With Platform LSF, organizations can easily harness
the untapped processing power of centralized or distributed computing
resources, enabling virtual collaboration and dynamic sharing of all
heterogeneous resources -- including operating systems, desktop computers,
workstations, applications, servers and data.
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