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The US Army Engineer Research and Development Center deployed the Barfoot supercomputer at its Information Technology Laboratory in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The HPE Cray EX4000 system features 212,000 compute cores and will support military research, climate modeling, and simulations.

Barfoot honors Medal of Honor recipient Col. Van Barfoot. The ERDC also plans to double backup power capacity at the ITL facility through new generators in partnership with Entergy of Mississippi, providing an additional 3.2MW. Additionally, ERDC will install four 1.4-megawatt mobile power generation units with GTI Energy and Cummins for enhanced backup power capability.