Wednesday, September 22nd 2021
Intel Processors Selected to Power Next-Gen DOE Supercomputers
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) selected next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named "Sapphire Rapids") to power the supercomputers used within NNSA's Life Extension Program for mission-critical efforts in stockpile stewardship. The NNSA's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory awarded a subcontract to Dell Technologies to supply the Intel-powered computing systems that will be deployed at the NNSA's Tri-Labs (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories).
Today's news supports the NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program operated at the NNSA's Tri-Labs. The Commodity Technology Systems contract (CTS-2) awarded today will enable these three national laboratories to build more powerful, energy-efficient computing systems that will focus on performing extensive modeling and simulation capabilities in support of NNSA's stockpile stewardship program.
Initial system deliveries are scheduled to begin in mid-2022 and continue through 2025. The systems will replace the current ASC commodity systems that were sourced by the 2015 CTS-1 contract and are nearing retirement.
The computing systems being built through CTS-2 will incorporate next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with next-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. The Xeon Scalable processors are optimized for high-performance computing workloads, with built-in acceleration for modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence and high-performance data analytics.
Today's news supports the NNSA's Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program operated at the NNSA's Tri-Labs. The Commodity Technology Systems contract (CTS-2) awarded today will enable these three national laboratories to build more powerful, energy-efficient computing systems that will focus on performing extensive modeling and simulation capabilities in support of NNSA's stockpile stewardship program.
The computing systems being built through CTS-2 will incorporate next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with next-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge servers. The Xeon Scalable processors are optimized for high-performance computing workloads, with built-in acceleration for modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence and high-performance data analytics.
16 Comments on Intel Processors Selected to Power Next-Gen DOE Supercomputers
Depending on application Intel might not be that much behind AMD especially since this is specifically about Sapphire Rapids.
www.reuters.com/technology/intel-breaks-ground-20-bln-arizona-plants-us-chip-factory-race-heats-up-2021-09-24/
I bet if it was Intel with the 8- 12 week lead time it wouldnt matter one bit, even if the product was way inferior as is the case now!
Funny how when purchasing things you would normally look at perfomance / cost / running costs/ availability /reliability and back up support.
Now in this case mentioned, if the performance and running costs of said AMD product was massively superior, reliability and back up support is looking pretty damn good as well, then the only logical conclusion would be to wait the few months for a far superior product that wins hands down!
The only time that wouldnt suit would be if you needed it like yesterday!
Bottom line is, people/companies are willing to overlook a vastly superior product in pretty much every concievable way and yet still prefer to go with far inferior product of Intel at this current time !
That makes absolutely no business sense !
We don't need new servers now anyway, and I don't have time to migrate it, so will wait until next year
Requote " The only time that wouldn't suit would be if you needed it like yesterday "
I think your reply has indicated a very strong preference to Intel regardless of how good the competition is , ie AMD, which is exactly what I have been saying the whole time in my post above !