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by dekhn 1477 days ago
Right; the labs most associated with nuclear work are LLNL and LANL. Both have had, IIRC, clusters configured for dual work- they could be partitioned between confidential and public work. The lab I wortked at, LBL, only did non-conf work but I know that LLNL took our codes and used them for nuclear simulations... errr, stockpile stewardship using multiphysics combustion codes.
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gh02t 1477 days ago
Oak Ridge does not do dual-use on the big leadership facilities, it's not really feasible with how they operate. I think Frontier can technically handle "moderate" data (e.g. export controlled), but not classified. It's meant for open science.
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omniglottal 1477 days ago
Didn't LANL get renamed to LANS?
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gh02t 1477 days ago
No, LANS was the name of the LLC that used to run LANL (which lost the contract a few years ago hence past tense), but the name of the lab itself is [still] LANL. The way the labs are run only a few people in the top leadership roles change if the management company running it changes; grossly oversimplifying they're basically interchangeable and come and go while the technical side of the labs themselves remain stable.
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