> 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 James Cownie <jcow...@gmail.com> Mob: +44 780 637 7146 http://skiingjim.blogspot.com/ > On 14 Oct 2015, at 21:55, Greg Lindahl <lind...@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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