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  • NIH Supercomputing Cluster Lands Spot on Top500 List; CSRA’s Kamal Narang Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Supercomputing Cluster Lands Spot on Top500 List; CSRA’s Kamal Narang Comments

    A computing platform that CSRA upgraded for the National Institutes of Health has been named to the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. NIH’s Biowulf cluster ranked 66th on the Top500’s 2017 list, CSRA said Monday. Biowulf works to process simultaneous computations related to genomics, statistical analysis, image processing and other areas in biomedical research. CSRA […] More

  • CSRA-Led Team Expands Capacity of NIH Supercomputing Cluster; Kamal Narang Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA-Led Team Expands Capacity of NIH Supercomputing Cluster; Kamal Narang Comments

    CSRA has led an industry team in efforts to boost the computing capacity of the National Institutes of Health‘s supercomputing cluster. The company said Wednesday it installed the second computing power increment to the Biowulf supercomputing system designed to run computations in genomics, image processing, statistical analysis and other biomedical research efforts. The second increment follows […] More

  • HPE, Mellanox to Provide Interconnect, Liquid-Cooled Platforms for NASA Ames' Supercomputer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE, Mellanox to Provide Interconnect, Liquid-Cooled Platforms for NASA Ames’ Supercomputer

    NASA has selected Mellanox Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to supply interconnect and liquid-cooled platforms for a high-performance computing cluster at the space agency’s Ames Research Center in California. HPE will deliver its SGI 8600 liquid-cooled system and combine it with Mellanox’s EDR InfiniBand interconnect platform for integration with Ames’ Electra supercomputer, Mellanox said Monday. Both companies will […] More

  • CSRA-Led Team Completes Updates to NIH Supercomputing Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA-Led Team Completes Updates to NIH Supercomputing Infrastructure

    A consortium led by CSRA has expanded a supercomputing cluster at the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Information Technology in an effort to help NIH researchers process and analyze large data sets. The company and its partners added the latest computing power increment to the Biowulf infrastructure that NIH uses to perform computations in genomics, image processing, statistical analysis and biomedical research projects, […] More

  • Mellanox, DOE Lab to Collaborate on Exascale Computing Tech Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mellanox, DOE Lab to Collaborate on Exascale Computing Tech Design

    Mellanox Technologies and the Energy Department‘s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have entered into a partnership agreement to design and architect exascale computing technologies. PNNL and Mellanox seek to explore advanced functions of the company’s Interconnect platform as well as develop a new in-network computing architecture,  Mellanox said Monday. The partnership will also support efforts of Mellanox and DOE’s Center for Advance Technology Evaluation to […] More

  • DISA OKs Mellanox Ethernet Switches for DoD Networks; Dale D’Alessio Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA OKs Mellanox Ethernet Switches for DoD Networks; Dale D’Alessio Comments

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has cleared Mellanox Technologies‘ SwitchX family of Ethernet switches for deployment in Defense Department-run computer networks. DISA gave the approval after the company’s Mellanox Federal Systems subsidiary secured a Unified Capabilities Approved Product List certification from the agency for the SwitchX series of 10/40 gigabit Ethernet switches, Mellanox said Monday. According to DISA, a product can […] More