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Construction has just been completed on infrastructure enhancements at two facilities for the Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center (NAVO MSRC). Schmidt Consulting Group, Inc. along with Dell Consulting, and Lockheed Martin Space Operations provided engineering, construction administration, and commissioning services for the Technology Insertion - FY 2008 project. The MSRC is located within the NAVO facilities at the John C. Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi and operates as a DoD shared High Performance Computing (HPC) resource. This facility provides DoD scientists and engineers with advanced HPC resources including vector systems, scalable parallel systems, clustered workstations, data storage and archiving, and scientific visualization resources.

This project prepares the MSRC for the arrival of an 80 Teraflop IBM P6 cluster called DAVINCI and a 117 Teraflop CRAY XT5 cluster named EINSTEIN. The addition of these powerful systems will quadruple the NAVO MSRC computational capacity by the close of 2008. EINSTEIN and DAVINCI will be joining BABBAGE and PASCAL in providing an aggregate 233 Teraflops of computational capability.

One of the MSRCs more recognizable work products is the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) atmospheric model. This model provided the most accurate five-day prediction of Hurricane Katrina, the eye of which, ironically, passed directly overhead of the MSRC facility. To learn more about this and other atmospheric models used by meteorologists to predict storm tracks check out: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/modelsummary.shtml

John C. Stennis Space Center | Military Support Facilities | Commissioning




	Construction has just been completed on infrastructure enhancements at two facilities for the Naval Oceanographic Office Major Shared Resource Center (NAVO MSRC). Schmidt Consulting Group, Inc. along with Dell Consulting, and Lockheed Martin Space Operations provided engineering, construction administration, and commissioning services for the Technology Insertion - FY 2008 project. The MSRC is located within the NAVO facilities at the John C. Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi and operates as a DoD shared High Performance Computing (HPC) resource. This facility provides DoD scientists and engineers with advanced HPC resources including vector systems, scalable parallel systems, clustered workstations, data storage and archiving, and scientific visualization resources. This project prepares the MSRC for the arrival of an 80 Teraflop IBM P6 cluster called DAVINCI and a 117 Teraflop CRAY XT5 cluster named EINSTEIN. The addition of these powerful systems will quadruple the NAVO MSRC computational capacity by the close of 2008. EINSTEIN and DAVINCI will be joining BABBAGE and PASCAL in providing an aggregate 233 Teraflops of computational capability. One of the MSRCs more recognizable work products is the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) atmospheric model. This model provided the most accurate five-day prediction of Hurricane Katrina, the eye of which, ironically, passed directly overhead of the MSRC facility. To learn more about this and other atmospheric models used by meteorologists to predict storm tracks check out: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/modelsummary.shtml

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