High Performance Computer Systems

Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division, Management and Operations Contractor of the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), in Richland, Washington, requests information to begin planning for the installation of high-performance computer systems to be purchased by the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) user facility and PNNL Research Computing (RC) Division.The new systems will replace existing systems (Sandy Bridge and Haswell) that support a broad range of scientific computational needs, with EMSL placing an emphasis on computational molecular and environmental science. We are interested in systems that will achieve the best overall performance with codes that fall broadly into three categories:1) solvers of large systems of coupled partial and ordinary differential equations;2) particle-based and grid-based simulations; and3) data-intensive analyses.Please see the full RFI at the PNNL solicitation website at