Dell said that it is providing the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), Maryland, with new PowerEdge C6100 servers customised for high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
According to Dell, the new servers will enable NCCS users at Goddard and locations across the US to conduct simulation modeling and data analysis to explore, understand and predict climate change.
In addition, NASA researchers will also benefit from improvements in the PowerEdge C6100’s system performance and reductions in energy consumption over previous generation servers with anticipated improvements of 69% in performance and 47% in energy efficiency.
The company said that the new servers will double NCCS computational capabilities to more than 300 trillion calculations per second.
Max Peterson, vice president for Dell Federal, said: "We are proud of our work with NASA over the years and are excited to work with their expansion of NCCS. Its work plays a major part in advancing the scientific community’s understanding of climate change.
"NASA climate simulations use and produce vast amounts of data, which creates a demanding technology environment for HPC offerings.
"Dell delivers purpose-designed HPC offerings but builds them on standardised, scalable technology that is easier to manage, maintain and upgrade."
