LLNL Awards $39M Subcontract for Stockpile Stewardship Computing Capability

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The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has awarded a subcontract to Silicon Valley-based PenguinrnComputing for stockpile stewardship computing services at three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)rnlaboratories, the NNSA announced this week. The contract supporting the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation andrnComputing (ASC) program involves a $39 million award to the company for “7 Petaflops (quadrillion floatingrnoperations per second) of ‘capacity’ computing capability to Los Alamos, Sandia and Lawrence Livermore nationalrnlaboratories,” according to the announcement. As a result, it says, NNSA supercomputers will be “dedicated to thernlargest and most complex calculations critical to stockpile stewardship,” the program that maintains the U.S.rnnuclear deterrent without full-scale explosive testing.