Its performance will be 17.7 petaflops
The US Department of Defense (DoD) announced the imminent transition to a new supercomputer as part of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). The complex was named Blueback – in honor of the American submarine USS Blueback (SS-581).
This 17.7 petaflops system will replace three older supercomputers and ensure that its combined performance remains above 100 petaflops using the latest technology available. This system significantly expands the Program’s ability to support the most complex computing tasks of the Department of Defense and includes the latest generation technology from AMD in the form of 128 AMD MI300A accelerators (APUs).
Blueback is a new Pentagon military supercomputer that will replace three old ones
The system will be installed at the US Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Center (Navy DSRC) at Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, and will provide high-performance computing capabilities to users across all departmental services and agencies.
The basis of the supercomputer is the HPE Cray EX4000 system with 256,512 cores. The computer consists of AMD EPYC Genoa processors, 128 AMD MI300A accelerators (APUs) and 24 NVIDIA L40 GPGPUs interconnected using Cray Slingshot-11 technology at a speed of 200 Gbps. The Cray ClusterStor E1000 Lustre also claims 20 PB of available storage, including 2 PB of NVMe-based solid-state storage and 538 Tebibytes of system memory.
The system is expected to become operational in 2024.
