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It's not budgeted for it but I heard that some of the FastForward 2 program money ended up going to ORNL because NNSA needed to do some early stage verification
by civilitty 8y ago
It's not budgeted for it but I heard that some of the FastForward 2 program money ended up going to ORNL because NNSA needed to do some early stage verification that was prohibitively expensive for them to do on their own but trivial for Summit (since they were already getting the hardware).
AFAIK there isn't a single publicly owned supercomputer in the US that wasn't funded in small part by stockpile maintenance budgets, even if they were never used for that purpose.
- gh02t 8y agoVery likely true. I know that stockpile maintenance is at least a tangential concern for all of them, even if it's just to have something available in reserve. Budget allocations are complex beasties, especially in DoE which pursues a variety of missions. The vast majority of work on the ORNL computers is not weapons-related, however.