[Beowulf] Semour Cray 90th Anniversary

[James Cownie]

> I wouldn't read too much into who's the prime and who's the sub, there
> could be a lot of business reasons as to why this contract arrangement
> might make sense.

Indeed, not least that you want someone with deep pockets to sue if they can’t deliver!

-- Jim
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> On 14 Oct 2015, at 21:55, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 09:11:53PM +0100, James Cownie wrote:
> 
>> If you read https://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/introducing-aurora
>> <https://www.alcf.anl.gov/articles/introducing-aurora> carefully,
>> you can notice that Intel is the prime contractor on the Aurora
>> contract, while Cray is a subcontractor
> 
> I found this description of the system to be very interesting:
> 
> http://aurora.alcf.anl.gov/
> 
> Aurora is going to have a 3rd generation Xeon Phi with "2nd Generation
> Intel Omni-Path" and silicon photonics. So this is a Cray system using
> Intel's new off-the-shelf interconnect, the fruit of Intel's
> collaboration with Cray on interconnect. It's a large enough deal that
> I wouldn't read too much into who's the prime and who's the sub, there
> could be a lot of business reasons as to why this contract arrangement
> might make sense.
> 
> -- greg
> 

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