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April 27, 2007

The Week in Review

by John E. West, Senior Fellow, DoD HPC Modernization Program

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Here's a collection of highlights, selected totally subjectively, from this week's HPC news stream as reported at insideHPC.com and HPCwire.

>>10 words and a link

Seed Magazine video on the impact of supercomputing on science,
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/04/science_in_silico.php

Study finds California leads in tech jobs, wages, venture cash,
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070424/high_tech_economy.html?.v=2

IBM and The Nature Conservancy apply IT, save great rivers,
http://www.nature.org/wherewework/greatrivers/press/press2952.html

China targets 3 PFLOPS systems by 2010,
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=39142

>>PCAST draft report

Dan Reed has a post on his blog this week talking about the big points in PCAST's successor to the 1999 PITAC report produced under the chairmanship of Ken Kennedy and Bill Joy.

Professor Reed draws out this thread (in red) as the main take home: "the leadership position of the U.S. in IT is at risk." The report recommends four actions:

   1. Expand the U.S. IT workforce.
   2. Invest in longer-term research.
   3. Repriortize NITRD research to better address emerging needs.
   4. A strategic interagency plan must be developed to better coordinate NITRD's programs and research.

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