The First Peeks At The DoE Post-Exascale Supercomputers
The Next Platform, Monday, October 2,2023
Other than Hewlett Packard Enterprise, who wants to build the future NERSC-10 supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory or the future OLCF-6 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory?
Anyone? OK, yes, we see you, Microsoft, and you, Amazon Web Services, raising your hands at the back of the room. Yes, we see you. Put your hands down, please. Anyone else?
Yeah, that's what we thought.
Lawrence Berkeley put out the request for proposal technical requirements for the kicker to the current 'Perlmutter' system on September 15, and Oak Ridge followed suit with its RFP technical requirements for the kicker to the 'Frontier' system on September 27, and we can't help but wonder what kinds of options both labs, and indeed any of the US Department of Energy national labs, has when it comes to acquiring their next-generation supercomputers.