<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I wouldn't read too much into who's the prime and who's the sub, there<br class="">could be a lot of business reasons as to why this contract arrangement<br class="">might make sense.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>Indeed, not least that you want someone with deep pockets to sue if they can’t deliver!<div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 14 Oct 2015, at 21:55, Greg Lindahl <<a href="mailto:lindahl@pbm.com" class="">lindahl@pbm.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 09:11:53PM +0100, James Cownie wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">If you read <a href="https://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/introducing-aurora" class="">https://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/introducing-aurora</a><br class=""><<a href="https://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/introducing-aurora" class="">https://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/introducing-aurora</a>> carefully,<br class="">you can notice that Intel is the prime contractor on the Aurora<br class="">contract, while Cray is a subcontractor<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I found this description of the system to be very interesting:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://aurora.alcf.anl.gov/" class="">http://aurora.alcf.anl.gov/</a><br class=""><br class="">Aurora is going to have a 3rd generation Xeon Phi with "2nd Generation<br class="">Intel Omni-Path" and silicon photonics. So this is a Cray system using<br class="">Intel's new off-the-shelf interconnect, the fruit of Intel's<br class="">collaboration with Cray on interconnect. It's a large enough deal that<br class="">I wouldn't read too much into who's the prime and who's the sub, there<br class="">could be a lot of business reasons as to why this contract arrangement<br class="">might make sense.<br class=""><br class="">-- greg<br class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>