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June 10, 2003 | TORONTO, Canada
Platform Computing Powers World's Second Largest Supercomputer, LANL's ASCI-Q AlphaServer
Platform Computing today 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 partnership with Hewlett-Packard and 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 René 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. For more information about Platform LSF, visit http://www.platform.com/products/LSF.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by the University of California for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) of the U.S. Department of Energy and works in partnership with NNSA's Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories, to support NNSA in its mission.
Platform Computing provides distributed and Grid Computing solutions that help enterprises effectively connect, measure, manage and optimize their enterprise resources. Platform's integrated desktop to Grid software solutions are used by over 1,500 customers worldwide in the financial services, government, life sciences and manufacturing industries to deliver higher quality products and services, improve business performance and maximize the return on IT investments. Founded in 1992, Platform has strategic relationships with Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, SAS and SGI, and the industry's broadest application integration support. For more information visit www.platform.com.
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