Transmission Facilitation Program aims to double US grid capacity

Los Alamos is getting ready for when exascale becomes available

But nuke simulations will still require supercomputers

Plus, Arm gets on the list for the first time ever

And Google, IBM and Intel are among those visiting the White House as the government reveals its quantum computing strategy

145,000-core Astra will be used to model nuclear decay

RFP goes out for CORAL systems, coming in 2021-2023

But the whole budget has to go through Congress, and will likely see a lot of changes

Public-private partnerships will see manufacturing firms tap into the government’s vast infrastructure

Using the NERSC’s Cray XC40 supercomputer, “Cori”

AMD, Cray, HPE, IBM, Intel and Nvidia get new business from the troubled agency as the exascale race continues

Delayed by political wrangling, the upgrade finally gets a go-ahead

Will work together to get better

Aims to cut non-IT energy consumption by a quarter

Open Compute hardware will be used to run nuclear explosion simulations