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US Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers (computerworld.com)
dcblogs quotes a report from Computerworld: The U.S. believes it will be ready to seek vendor proposals to build two exascale supercomputers -- costing roughly $200 to $300 million each -- by 2019. The two systems will be built at the same time and be ready for use by 2023, although it's possible one of the systems could be ready a year earlier, according to U.S. Department of Energy officials. The U.S. will award the exascale contracts to vendors with two different architectures. But the scientists and vendors developing exascale systems do not yet know whether President-Elect Donald Trump's administration will change directions. The incoming administration is a wild card. Supercomputing wasn't a topic during the campaign, and Trump's dismissal of climate change as a hoax, in particular, has researchers nervous that science funding may suffer. At the annual supercomputing conference SC16 last week in Salt Lake City, a panel of government scientists outlined the exascale strategy developed by President Barack Obama's administration. When the session was opened to questions, the first two were about Trump. One attendee quipped that "pointed-head geeks are not going to be well appreciated."
Just tell him that they can use em to save his irish golf course and bob's your uncle.
The scientists need to learn how to play the political game.
How to get your funding cut: "This computer is for climate modeling."
How to get your funding increased: "This computer is for nuclear warhead design validation."
They can go back to "climate" in 2018 if the Democrats win the mid-terms.
It's a fair guess that they will run Linux as the kernel on their supercomputers since Linux is on around 99.6% on all supercomputers in the world but it may be possible that other parties are lobbying behind the scenes.
There ain't no such thing as proprietary standards only proprietary formats. Standards are by definition open.
Where does lame duck come from?
Mallard Fillmore
Pass a real exam and secure a place at a really great campus. Pay your tuition or get a scholarship but the skills will be real. Study with only the very best and get a great education.
Hey, you copied that right out of the Trump University brochure!
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Don't think of Trump's Mexico wall as 35 feet high and 1000 miles long. It's 240 RUs tall by 5.5 milllion rack widths long.
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