The US Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) plans to move a supercomputer.

The HPCMP will shift the TI-19 system from its home at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) facility in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

In a single-source notice, the government said that Hewlett Packard Enterprise would be awarded the relocation contract because "HPE is the manufacturer of the TI-19 AFRL supercomputer system, and only HPE has access to the proprietary physical and logical interconnections required to successfully disassemble and reassemble this supercomputer system."

A 2016 presentation on the DoD's broader compute portfolio lists TI-19 as an FY21 system with 47 petaflops of performance. Its exact compute configuration is not shared, but the broader system is based on a Cray EX architecture.

Back in 2016, the system was expected to run until 2024, but TI-19 ultimately ran for longer, and is now finding new life at the ERDC.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is home to a number of classified and unclassified supercomputers, with the latest system unveiled this past month. The $20m Flyer offers 14 petaflops of performance, but on more modern hardware than the TI-19. At the time, the department said that Flyer would join nine other AFRL supercomputers.