7. Trinity (US) – $174 million
The US government offered supercomputer manufacturers Cray a $174 million contract to build this Cray XC supercomputer with a Cray Sonexion storage system for the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Despite its use, you may expect the supercomputer to be even more expensive. But because of the newer, stronger technology which comes a paralleled reduction of costs associated with creating newer, more powerful supercomputers.
The use of the supercomputer is simple: it will be used to keep America’s nuclear arsenal secure, safe and effective.
Trinity will be a joint effort between the Sandia National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, as part of the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing Program.
So far we don’t know the exact date when Trinity will be up and running, and if the machine will run the nation’s nuclear arsenal in the event that the US should need to deploy nuclear bombs in combat situations.
