Compaq Computer Systems is the leading supplier of high-end computing systems to the US Government. According to Andre Wollheim, product manager for Compaq Enterprise products at Tarsus Technologies, various departments within the US government have deployed Compaq AlphaServer and related enterprise products to meet their demanding application requirements.
Wollheim says Compaq was recently chosen by the US Department of Energy to one of the world`s most powerful supercomputers. "The 30+ TeraOPS system, code named "Q", uses an integrated program of surveillance, experiments, non-nuclear tests, archived data, modeling and simulation to assess and certify the safety, security and reliability of nuclear weapons without underground nuclear testing," says Wollheim.
He adds that Q will consist initially of approximately 375 AlphaServer GS320 systems (approximately 12,000 Alpha processors) with EV68 CPUs running in excess of 1,250 MHz on Compaq`s Tru64 UNIX operating system. The machine is almost the size of five basketball courts (in excess of 21,000 square feet), the supercomputer will be coupled together with more than 6,000 fiber and copper cables, will have more than 600 terabytes of Compaq StorageWorks Modular Array storage systems, and will receive on-site 24x7 service and support.
Wollheim reveals that Compaq was also the hardware of choice for the US National Science Foundation - the world`s largest supercomputer, built by Compaq, offers scientists access to a wide range of non-military, scientific applications.
"This machine is based on Compaq`s industry-leading AlphaServer SC architecture, and supercomputer consists of 682 quad-processor Compaq AlphaServer systems with a total of 2,728 processors that delivers peak computing power of greater than six trillion floating point operations per second (TeraFLOPS)," says Wollheim. The system runs on Compaq`s Tru64 UNIX operating system with 2,728 gigabytes of memory (1 gigabyte per CPU) and 50 terabytes of storage.
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