Congratulations to Sandia National Laboratories on Success of Red Storm and Red Sky Commercial Data Systems is proud to congratulate its customer Sandia National Laboratories on the tremendous success of the Red Storm and Red Sky supercomputing projects. CDS engineers worked closely with Sandia and Sun on the integration of both machines, and as such, witnessed the amazing achievement. Red Sky is located in the space where legendary system ASCI Red once stood, ready to provide computing might for a variety of Sandia projects, and to assist the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in solving the nation's pressing energy challenges. Red Sky is listed by Top500 Supercomputer Sites as the 10th fastest computer in the world. Commercial Data Systems worked very closely with Sandia on this supercomputing project. The top 10 ranking was achieved by temporarily aggregating Red Sky, Sandia's newest institutional machine, with a second system being constructed using the same architecture and components on behalf of NREL. The second system is sited adjacent to Red Sky and operated by Sandia to support work sponsored by the DOE's office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The flexibility of the Red Sky architecture enabled this super-configuration which achieved a peak performance of more than 500 Teraflops (or 500 trillion mathematical operations per second), and an impressive 433.5 Teraflops against the Linpack benchmark commonly used for ranking supercomputing speed. The overall attributes of Red Sky, combined with promising early application results, made for an easy choice when faced with the opportunity to stand up additional capability for the Sandia/NREL HPC collaboration. The collaboration leverages Sandia's experience in HPC to provide a computational resource for applications in the energy sector, as NREL grows its computational science capabilities and expertise. Additionally, Sandia National Laboratories' Red Storm high-performance computer will get broader use to help solve the nation's most pressing national challenges now that it has been designated part of a Department of Energy user facility. Red Storm is the primary computer in the National Security Computing Center (NSCC), a DOE user facility for classified applications that require high-performance computing. The NSCC will operate as a high-performance computing resource for all DOE laboratories in support of the broader national security mission at NNSA. The new NSCC facility can accommodate future computing platforms, upgrades and improvements with minimal interruption. NSCC will be used to help solve pressing national security problems in areas such as cyber defense, vulnerability assessments, informatics (network discovery), and space systems threats. The facility can also be used to provide high-fidelity simulations and advanced imagery processing. Sandia's extensive track record in building and running cost-effective and robust HPC systems in both classified and unclassified environments made it a logical choice to host an NSCC system. Many of Sandia's computer systems, including the recently completed Red Sky, are designed to be expanded economically to several times their initial capacity to meet future growth in demand. NREL is the U.S. Department of Energy's primary national laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. NREL, in Golden, Colo., is operated for DOE by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. Sandia National Laboratories is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, an autonomous Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness. Return to front page » CDS Partner News NetApp Receives "Above and Beyond" Award from U.S. Dept. of Defense What Customers Can Expect from the New Sun CDS in the News CivSource Commercial Data Systems Aims to Help Government Streamline Technology, Costs March 25, 2010 DC Urban Technology Examiner FOSE 2010 - An Interview with a Cloud Computing Industry Leader April 1, 2010 Events TechNet Marianas 2010 - AFCEA Marianas April 27-30, 2010 Guam Korea LandWarNet Training Conference May 18-20, 2010 Korea 2010 C41SR Symposium - AFCEA San Diego May 18-21, 2010 San Diego, CA 1100 - How Many Federal Data Centers Does it Take? May 20, 2010 Washington, DC 2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference NetApp Customer Appreciation Event May 25, 2010 Phoenix, AZ More Events Follow Us

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