http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government RSS Feed for Government en-us Fri, 16 May 2008 01:08:56 GMT 2008-05-16T01:08:56Z en-us http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/The_New_Science_of_Visual_Analytics.html When Jim Thomas set out to find new ways to deal with the mountains of information our society generates, he didn't just create a new organization, he created a new science. In this article we'll take a look at how the National Visualization and Analytics Center is transforming the problem of finding needles in haystacks into an opportunity for a more secure future. Fri, 16 May 2008 01:08:56 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/The_New_Science_of_Visual_Analytics.html 2008-05-16T01:08:56Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Jaguar_Upgrade_Brings_ORNL_Closer_to_Petascale_Computing.html Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver advances in scientific research. Thu, 15 May 2008 17:38:27 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Jaguar_Upgrade_Brings_ORNL_Closer_to_Petascale_Computing.html 2008-05-15T17:38:27Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/IBM_Set_to_Test_the_Fastest_Computer_in_the_World.html IBM is assembling the final pieces of what they hope will soon become the world's most powerful supercomputer. Wed, 14 May 2008 15:59:24 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/IBM_Set_to_Test_the_Fastest_Computer_in_the_World.html 2008-05-14T15:59:24Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/NASA_and_SGI_Join_Petascale_Fray.html SGI's entry into the multi-petaflops sweepstakes began last week with its announcement of the Space Act Agreement. The agreement outlines a multi-year partnership between SGI, Intel and NASA, with the goal of deploying petascale supercomputing capabilities for the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at the Ames Research Center. Wed, 14 May 2008 02:10:56 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/NASA_and_SGI_Join_Petascale_Fray.html 2008-05-14T02:10:56Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/DOE_Accepting_INCITE_Proposals_for_2009.html The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is accepting proposals for a program to support high-impact scientific advances through the use of some of the world's most powerful supercomputers at four of DOE's national laboratories. Tue, 13 May 2008 19:22:57 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/DOE_Accepting_INCITE_Proposals_for_2009.html 2008-05-13T19:22:57Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Record-Setting_Simulations_on_Ranger_Reconstruct_the_Reionization_Era.html In the coming months, Dr. Michael L. Norman of UCSD will use Ranger, the world's most powerful supercomputer for open-science research, to perform the largest cosmological simulation to date. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:37:51 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Record-Setting_Simulations_on_Ranger_Reconstruct_the_Reionization_Era.html 2008-05-13T16:37:51Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Golden_Energy_Computing_Organization_Established.html The Colorado School of Mines along with its partners, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, has established the Golden Energy Computing Organization, an HPC group dedicated to energy science research. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:46:10 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Golden_Energy_Computing_Organization_Established.html 2008-05-13T16:46:10Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/High_Performance_Humanities.html The NEH and DOE have a vision to bring one million hours of high performance computing time to the humanities. The effort is being managed out of the NEH's new Office of Digital Humanities, created recently to recognize the increasing importance of computing in what has traditionally been a very old-fashioned area of research. Thu, 15 May 2008 01:39:26 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/High_Performance_Humanities.html 2008-05-15T01:39:26Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/NCAR_Installs_76_Teraflop_IBM_Supercomputer.html The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has taken delivery of a new IBM supercomputer that will advance research into severe weather and the future of Earth's climate. Thu, 08 May 2008 17:05:10 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/NCAR_Installs_76_Teraflop_IBM_Supercomputer.html 2008-05-08T17:05:10Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/NASA_Intel_SGI_to_Partner_on_Petascale_Supercomputer.html NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency's supercomputer performance and capacity. Wed, 07 May 2008 18:02:57 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/NASA_Intel_SGI_to_Partner_on_Petascale_Supercomputer.html 2008-05-07T18:02:57Z