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Mike Kramer: Navigating power deals in the new data economy
Mike Kramer has a background in finance, not engineering, but a combined 20 years at Exelon and Constellation and a key role in the deals that have Meta and Microsoft buying power from Constellation’s Clinton and Crane sites have made him something of a nuclear expert.
Kramer spoke with Nuclear News staff writer Susan Gallier in late August, just after a visit to Clinton in central Illinois to celebrate a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Meta that closed in June. As Constellation’s vice president for data economy strategy, Kramer was part of the deal-making—not just the celebration.
Randal S. Baker
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 185 | Number 1 | January 2017 | Pages 107-116
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE15-124
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Discrete ordinates transport packages from the Los Alamos National Laboratory are required to perform large computationally intensive time-dependent calculations on massively parallel architectures, where even a single such calculation may need many months to complete. While Koch-Baker-Alcouffe (KBA) methods scale well to very large numbers of compute nodes, we are limited by practical constraints on the number of such nodes we can actually apply to any given calculation. Instead, this paper describes a modified KBA algorithm that allows realization of the reductions in solution time offered by both the current and future architectural changes within a compute node.