Defense Market

GE Intelligent Platforms today announced 6U OpenVPX NPN240 multi-processor, expanding its family of rugged GPGPU (general purpose computing on a graphics processing unit) solutions. The NPN240 features two NVIDIA® CUDA-capable GT240 96-core GPUs, enabling it to deliver up to 750 GFLOPS peak per card slot (depending on the application). Multiple NPN240s can be linked to [...]

High performance computers are used in many military situations including weapons design, testing, battlefield modeling, and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance activities (C4ISR). Many experts believe that it is possible to design nuclear weapons with current commercially available computers. Indeed, the first atomic weapons were designed with slide rules. Nonetheless, it is [...]

Worldwide Defense High Performance Computing (HPC) Market Forecast 2010-2015 provides worldwide defense HPC market forecast for the period 2010-2015

The High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has been established by DoD to provide HPC services that enable the DoD R&D centers to enhance warfighting capability of US troops. The HPCMP manages a group of subcontractors from [...]