Both Cray and IBM were in the competition for the next supercomputers for:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
- Argonne National Naboratory (ANL)
IBM won LLNL and ORNL to create the upcoming Sierra and Summit Supercomputers. We heard down the grapevine that ANL wanted an IBM based system as well, but due to the rules of the competition they were given the Cray system.
So the rumour goes anyways, I'm not in the inner circle.
That doesn't surprise me at all. The DOE keeps more options open by selecting different vendors for the same generation installs. In the last generation, LLNL and ANL were IBM and ORNL was the Cray.
That said, I'm long since out of whatever circle it was that I was in (certainly not the inner one!) as well so I speak with no authority whatsoever.
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
- Argonne National Naboratory (ANL)
IBM won LLNL and ORNL to create the upcoming Sierra and Summit Supercomputers. We heard down the grapevine that ANL wanted an IBM based system as well, but due to the rules of the competition they were given the Cray system.
So the rumour goes anyways, I'm not in the inner circle.