GDIT Begins Running Twin HPE-Cray Supercompuers for NOAA Forecast Modeling

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), announced today that NOAA’s National Weather Service will begin running its operational weather, water, climate and space weather forecast models on GDIT’s twin supercomputers. Meteorologists will produce weather forecast products using output from these model runs. These forecasts are critical for […]

General Dynamics IT Unit Wins $89.5M EPA HPC Contract

May 6, 2022 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded an $89.5 million contract to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a unit of aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics (NYSE:GD). The money will fund EPA’s High-End Scientific Computing (HESC) II Support Services task order. The contract is issued on a one-year base with six […]

Job of the Week: Tactical HPC Software Engineer at General Dynamics

General Dynamics Mission Systems is seeking a Tactical HPC Software Engineer in our Job of the Week. “The Tactical High Performance Computing Software Engineer leads the development of next generation high performance radar and sensor signal processing for some of the world’s most advanced defense systems.”

General Dynamics Demos Real-time Data Analytics at SC14

Last week at SC14, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems achieved a 10x performance improvement in the advanced processing of very large and dynamic data sets after customizing Apache Hama from the distributed programming model to the parallel programming model best utilized in HPC systems.