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DOE Opens Bids to Construct ORNL’s Next-Generation Supercomputer

Contract will be awarded to develop the newest high-performance computing system at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

The Department of Energy released a request for proposals today to advance its leadership in high-performance computing, inviting vendors to submit their plans for a successor to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s exascale (a quintillion or more calculations per second) supercomputer, Frontier. The future system, to be called Discovery, will be designed to offer new computational capabilities over Frontier, currently the fastest supercomputer in the world at 1.206 exaflops on the High-Performan...

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