US Navy gets supercomputer with 176,128 cores, 382TB of memory and 26PB of storage

The US Navy's Center for Supercomputing Resources has received a new supercomputer. It was developed by Penguin Computing under a $68 million contract to build another supercomputer, but for the US Air Force.

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The supercomputer for the US Navy is called Nautilus. It was installed at the John Stennis Space Center after the company successfully completed the final series of tests in April.

The new HPC system received 1,352 nodes, each with up to 128 Milan generation AMD EPYC cores and 256GB of memory. In total, the Nautilus has 176,128 cores, 382TB of memory and a storage capacity of 26PB (26,000TB).

The HPC complex runs 16 visualization nodes powered by NVIDIA A40 chips and 32 artificial intelligence nodes powered by a quartet of powerful NVIDIA A100 GPUs. The supercomputer achieved a performance score of 8.2 PFLOPS. The system will be used by scientists and researchers in climate, weather and ocean modeling.

The US Navy has also upgraded its most powerful supercomputer, Narwhal. It now has 308,480 cores (+18,176) and a performance of 13.5 PFLOPS.

Source: DCD