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RCED-96-55R 1 (1995-12-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaclal0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Coimunity, and Economic Development Division B-270732 December 19, 1995 The Honorable Bill Baker House of Representatives Dear Mr. Baker: By letter dated November 8, 1995, and in subsequent discussions with your office, you requested that we review the costs associated with the Department of Energy's planned relocation of its National Energy Research Supercomputer Center from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Specifically, you asked that we (1) provide information on the estimated costs for operating the center at each location and (2) identify possible additional costs that may be incurred in the relocation as the Department's plans become more definitive. BACKGROUND Since its inception in 1973, the supercomputer center has been at Livermore, California. It is housed in a two-story building opened in 1980, and most of the equipment is in a room of approximately 14,000 square feet. The rest of the facility houses personnel and administrative operations for the supercomputer center. At Berkeley, the center will be on four floors with several computer rooms totaling 15,500 square feet. The Department's Energy Research Program primarily funds both the supercomputer center and the Berkeley laboratory. The Livermore laboratory is primarily funded by the Department's Defense Programs. Even though Livermore is primarily funded by Defense Programs, it had $118 million of Energy Research Program funds available for fiscal year 1995. Of this amount, $56 million was for the supercomputer center. In early fiscal year 1995, the Energy Research Program informally asked the Director of the Berkeley .laboratory if consolidating operations by moving the supercomputer center to this laboratory would be cost-effective. Preliminary cost estimates indicated that Berkeley could operate the center more cost-effectively. Therefore, in April 1995, the program decided to consider alternatives for operating the supercomputer center and asked both laboratories to develop proposals for its operation through the year 2000. The proposals were to address the following six criteria: GAO/RCED-96-55R, Relocation of Energy's Supercomputer / 5f 56

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