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Penguin Computing's TrueHPC Platform Will Enable Innovations in Science and TechnologyFREMONT, Calif., Sept. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Penguin Computing, Inc., a division of SMART Global Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGH) and leader in high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that it has been awarded two contracts totaling $68M from the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (DoD HPCMP) to deliver Penguin Computing’s TrueHPC™ supercomputing platform, plus managed services and high-performance storage, to the Navy DSRC and AFRL DSRC sites. Penguin Computing’s TrueHPC platforms will provide high-performance computing capability for users from all services and agencies of the Department of Defense (DoD). The balanced HPC systems and software significantly enhance the DoD's ability to tackle the most demanding and computationally challenging problems in fluid dynamics, chemistry and materials science, electromagnetics and acoustics, climate/weather/ocean modeling and simulation, among other applications. Penguin Computing’s managed services team will bring additional capability to the DoD in emerging technologies, while also enabling DoD teams to focus on their research. Equipped with the latest generation memory and processing technologies, these complete and highly dense HPC resources will be among the most powerful supercomputers in the DoD HPCMP’s resources, providing a combined total of over 365,000 cores, more than 775 TB of memory, and a total of 47 PB of high-performance storage including over 5 PB of high-performance Flash storage. Combined, these two systems provide a peak performance of over 17.6 petaFLOPs. “By implementing Penguin’s TrueHPC solution, the DoD HPCMP user community will be able to conduct advanced research for the highly complex problems the user community is tasked with solving,” said Sid Mair, president of Penguin Computing. “Through our work with NVIDIA and AMD, we’re able to provide the Department of Defense with significantly higher density and operational efficiencies, which equates to exceptional value when you’re using very large scale systems that have extremely high power requirements.” Penguin Computing’s TrueHPC platforms will beinstalled at two out of the four HPCMP’s DoD Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRCs):
"Increasingly complex problems being tackled by innovative HPC systems, such as Penguin Computing’s TrueHPC, demand unprecedented acceleration and smarter networks to drive performance at any scale,” said Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of networking at NVIDIA. "NVIDIA's accelerated computing platform supports the broadest range of supercomputing workloads, powered by the innovation of NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs and the unparalleled throughput of NVIDIA HDR InfiniBand, the world's only fully off-loadable, in-network computing platform." “We are pleased to continue our longstanding technology partnership with Penguin Computing to push the boundaries of HPC and supercomputing,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center and Embedded Solutions Business Group at AMD. “The combination of our powerful 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors and Penguin’s Tundra platform will help the Modernization Office’s user community to solve complex problems to achieve their goal of addressing the Department of Defense’s biggest challenges.” The Penguin Computing TrueHPC systems are scheduled to enter production service early in 2022. Follow Penguin Computing on Twitter @PenguinHPC and use our official hashtags #HPCeverywhere and #AIeverywhere to stay connected. About Penguin Computing About the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) For more information, visit our website at: https://www.hpc.mil. “Penguin Computing” as well as “TrueHPC” are trademarks of Penguin Computing, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. Media Contact
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