NERSC-3 Procurement

Bill Kramer, head of high performance computing, led the NERSC-3 procurement task force.

A request for proposals for NERSC's next generation high performance computer system was issued on July 15, 1998. Proposals were accepted until October 1, when confidential evaluation of the competing systems began.

Deciding which technology to pursue is critical to NERSC's future, and a task force under the direction of Bill Kramer is weighing the options carefully.

"With this procurement, NERSC will continue on its innovative path in production-level high performance computing," Kramer said.

Delivery of the initial system is expected by mid-1999.