The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) has a requirement for 3.5 pFLOPS of processing power for the Cray XC40/50. The ERDC intends to issue an award to Cray Inc, 901 5th Ave Ste 1000, Seattle, WA 98164-2058 (CAGE Code: oEYH8) on a sole source basis.

The Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) is a joint program that serves the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) community of the Department of Defense. The HPCMP includes five DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRC) that provide supercomputing system architecture and deployment expertise, a nation-wide high-performance information-assured data network supporting the DoD RDT&E community and the computational expertise to support DoD scientists and engineers in the development of supercomputing algorithms and applications that solve the problems facing DoD research, acquisition, and operations. The largest of the five Centers is the ERDC DSRC located at the Information Technology Laboratory on the Engineer Research and Development Center campus.

The ERDC DSRC purchased the Cray XC40/50 Supercomputer. The system currently operates at 5.9 pFLOPS. Currently on average, the computational workload in queue is greater than the capability of the machine. In order to ensure the system can handle the increased workload, the processing power needs to be increased by 3.5 pFLOPS. Since this supercomputer is proprietary only Cray, Inc. can provide the additional processing power.

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