High-Performance Computing Acquisitions Based on the Factors that Matter

  • Authors:
  • Larry P. Davis;Roy L. Campbell Jr.;William A. Ward Jr.;Cray J. Henry

  • Affiliations:
  • US Department of Defense;US Army Research Laboratory;US Army Engineer Research and Development Center;US Department of Defense

  • Venue:
  • Computing in Science and Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The US Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program has developed an evaluation process that combines qualitative usability factors with quantitative performance and price-per-performance factors to determine which HPC systems to acquire in its annual modernization process.