Technology  September 30, 2020

On-demand computing company Liqid wins $20.6M Defense Department contract

BROOMFIELD — The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded a $20.6 million contract to Broomfield-based Liqid Inc. to build what could be one of the world’s most powerful supercomputing centers.

In a statement Wednesday, Liqid said it will provide defense agencies with 17 petaflops of processing power through an on-demand system to be installed at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. 

A petaflop is a measure of computing speed, equal to being able to process one thousand million million, or 10 to the power of 15, floating-point arithmetic…

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