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Sandia National Laboratory
Coverage of Sandia National Laboratory in the Nexus archive.
- Uncle Sam's next big supercomputer might use something more exotic than GPUs
The US National Labs are exploring new chip architectures, including NextSilicon's Maverick-2 dataflow processor, to power their supercomputers. The Department of Energy operates some of the largest supercomputers in the world, responsible for simulations and research. NextSilicon's chips have met system acceptance requirements, paving the way for deployment in larger systems.