UK Atomic Weapons Establishment Accelerates Engineering Efforts with SGI Altix UV

SGI’s Leading Supercomputer to Accelerate Large Memory Engineering for UK Defence Organization

March 31, 2011 defpro.com

FREMONT, Calif | SGI, a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in the United Kingdom has selected two SGI Altix UV 1000 systems to rapidly solve large memory engineering problems. AWE is responsible for manufacturing and maintaining the warheads for the UK’s nuclear deterrent, Trident. The organization’s work covers the entire life cycle of nuclear warheads, from initial concept, assessment and design through component manufacture and assembly, in-service support, decommissioning and then disposal.