  {"id":117240,"date":"2020-05-01T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T23:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=117240"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T00:16:31","slug":"maui-high-performance-computer-center-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/01\/maui-high-performance-computer-center-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> awarded Maui High Performance Computing Center contract valued up to $75M"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_117247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117247\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MHPCC-aerial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MHPCC-aerial.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MHPCC-aerial-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/MHPCC-aerial-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maui High Performance Computing Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> has been awarded a four-year contract valued at up to $75 million by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to operate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhpcc.hpc.mil\/\">Maui High Performance Computing Center<\/a> (<abbr>MHPCC<\/abbr>) via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/arl\/\">Applied Research Laboratory at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a> (<abbr>ARL<\/abbr> at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>The contract calls for <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> to provide essential engineering, research and development capabilities in emerging computer technology and is intended to lower barriers to a modern High Performance Computing ecosystem and high-performance computing-backed solutions.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Maui High Performance Computing Center is the largest extramural project in <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> history,&rdquo; said <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong> and principal investigator. &ldquo;It is the cornerstone of high-tech on Maui and provides some of the best jobs on the island.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The university has been operating and managing <abbr>MHPCC<\/abbr> since it first won the contract through a competitive bid in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We look forward to our continued partnership to support <abbr title=\"science, technology, engineering and mathematics\">STEM<\/abbr> education, as <abbr>MHPCC<\/abbr> scientists and engineers generously volunteer their time as mentors to students ranging from coaching robotics to fostering internships,&rdquo; said Leslie Wilkins, president and <abbr>CEO<\/abbr> of Maui Economic Development Board.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_117243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117243\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/inouye_MHPCC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/inouye_MHPCC-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"group at grand opening\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/inouye_MHPCC-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/inouye_MHPCC-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/inouye_MHPCC.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dan Inouye (2nd from left front) at the dedication of a new supercomputer in 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><abbr>MHPCC<\/abbr> is one of just five Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Centers nationwide. The new project is known as VaCUUMS&#8211;Vanguard Center Unified <abbr>UARC<\/abbr> for <abbr>MHPCC<\/abbr> Support. The purpose of the Vanguard Center is to leverage the core competencies of <abbr>ARL<\/abbr> at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> to accomplish research, development, test and evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We sincerely appreciate the support and guidance that we received from the Naval Sea Systems Command in developing this new contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory,&rdquo; said <abbr>ARL<\/abbr> at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Director <strong>Margo Edwards<\/strong>. &ldquo;This is important research for our country and it is exciting that it is happening right here in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The late U.S. <abbr title=\"Senator\">Sen.<\/abbr> Daniel K. Inouye was the driving force behind the establishment of the <abbr>MHPCC<\/abbr> in 1993. <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=67\">In 2001, when <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> won the contract to operate the center<\/a>, Inouye stated, &ldquo;It has long been my hope that the university play a greater role in concert with the Department of Defense in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> in utilizing the supercomputer for the benefit of its faculty and students.&rdquo; He also said, &ldquo;&#8230;a world-class supercomputing center offers tremendous opportunities to advance the frontiers of scientific inquiry and positions <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at the forefront of high-tech research and development.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;From a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Contracts\/Contract\/Article\/2173758\/\">U.S. Department of Defense article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contract calls for <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> to provide essential engineering, research and development capabilities in emerging computer technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[573,541,947],"class_list":["post-117240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-applied-research-laboratory","tag-computer-science","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117240"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117276,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117240\/revisions\/117276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}