ABSTRACT
The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) was initiated in 1992 in response to Congressional direction to modernize the Department of Defense (DoD) laboratories' high performance computing capabilities. In its most recent technology insertion, the HPCMP acquired eight systems totaling 5PF of peak capability and 316K compute cores. The mission of the HPCMP is to accelerate the development and transition of new technologies into superior defense capabilities through the strategic application of high performance computing, networking, and computational expertise. The HPCMP serves as the central resource for expertise in the application of high-end computing within the DoD, providing the people, expertise, and technologies that increase the productivity of the DoD's research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) community. The workload on DoD HPCMP systems is complex and varied. The HPCMP characterizes its computational workload in broad categories of scientific and engineering disciplines called computational technology areas (CTAs).
