You should read the CORAL RFPs. A guiding principle in both CORAL-1 and CORAL-2 was for LLNL to buy the same machine as either Argonne or Oak Ridge.
In any case, you’ve got this precisely backwards. LLNL is getting a supercomputer for the NNSA mission, as had been true of NNSA since the dawn of the computing age. Look up UNIVAC-1. What’s not guaranteed is that Office of Science gets big computers for non-essential activities (science). That’s an artifact of more recent times and larger non-defense government spending. Jeff On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 9:28 AM Junchao Zhang via petsc-dev < petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > Only Livermore has excuses to copy other machines. Argonne or Oak Ridge > won't get fund if they do that > > --Junchao Zhang > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 1:50 AM Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev < > petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> *From: *"Thakur, Rajeev" <tha...@anl.gov> >> *Subject: **[Xlab] El Capitan CPU announcement* >> *Date: *March 4, 2020 at 1:33:13 PM CST >> *To: *"x...@cels.anl.gov" <x...@cels.anl.gov> >> >> AMD >> >> https://www.anandtech.com/show/15581/el-capitan-supercomputer-detailed-amd-cpus-gpus-2-exaflops >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xlab mailing list >> x...@lists.cels.anl.gov >> https://lists.cels.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/xlab >> >> >> -- Jeff Hammond jeff.scie...@gmail.com http://jeffhammond.github.io/
