http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government RSS Feed for Government en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:35 GMT 2009-07-03T18:14:35Z en-us http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Committee-Searches-for-Next-Berkeley-Lab-Director-49879092.html University of California President Mark G. Yudof has named an 11-member committee of university regents, faculty and researchers to advise him in the search for the next director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:14:35 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Committee-Searches-for-Next-Berkeley-Lab-Director-49879092.html 2009-07-03T18:14:35Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/DoD-Announces-New-Director-of-DARPA-49878227.html The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced the appointment of Regina E. Dugan as the 19th director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:10:04 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/DoD-Announces-New-Director-of-DARPA-49878227.html 2009-07-03T18:10:04Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/STEP09-Demonstrates-LHC-Readiness-49631242.html After months of preparation and two intensive weeks of 24 x 7 operation, the LHC experiments are celebrating the achievement of a new set of goals aimed at demonstrating full readiness for the LHC data taking run expected to start later this year. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:31:58 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/STEP09-Demonstrates-LHC-Readiness-49631242.html 2009-07-01T22:31:58Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Brookhaven-Lab-Selects-Force10-ExaScale-Family-49610312.html Force10 Networks today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Labs has selected the ExaScale family of virtualized switch/routers to help power its network. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:51:54 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Brookhaven-Lab-Selects-Force10-ExaScale-Family-49610312.html 2009-07-01T16:51:54Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/MAGPI-Deploys-Ciena-to-Support-Federal-Research-Labs-49608612.html Ciena Corp. today announced that MAGPI (Mid-Atlantic Gigapop for Internet2) has implemented a network based on the CN 4200 FlexSelect Advanced Services Platform to support high performance network connectivity among multiple research labs. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:59:22 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/MAGPI-Deploys-Ciena-to-Support-Federal-Research-Labs-49608612.html 2009-07-01T16:59:22Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/QA-with-Donald-Frederick-of-the-NCCS-49534432.html Donald Frederick, NCCS training coordinator for high-performance computing, discusses NCCS workshops for Jaguar's users. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:16:58 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/QA-with-Donald-Frederick-of-the-NCCS-49534432.html 2009-06-30T21:16:58Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/NCSA-Receives-NSF-Grant-for-Security-Software-49520637.html NCSA's Cybersecurity Directorate has received a two-year $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to maintain and provide critical enhancements for cyberInfrastructure security technologies developed at NCSA. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:01:29 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/NCSA-Receives-NSF-Grant-for-Security-Software-49520637.html 2009-06-30T18:01:29Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/DARPA-Investigates-Extreme-Supercomputing.html Agency issues RFI for "Ubiquitous High Performance Computing" systems. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:03:45 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/DARPA-Investigates-Extreme-Supercomputing.html 2009-06-30T00:03:45Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Argonne-Recognized-During-Visual-Celebration-of-Great-Science-49439982.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:16:59 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/Argonne-Recognized-During-Visual-Celebration-of-Great-Science-49439982.html 2009-06-29T18:16:59Z http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/NSCEE-Sees-Performance-Gain-w-Cray-CX1-and-Windows-49106546.html Cray today announced that the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment (NSCEE) tested the Cray CX1 deskside supercomputer running Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008 and found the system is 46 percent faster in the delivery of complex analyses, resulting in greater researcher productivity. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:23:07 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/government/NSCEE-Sees-Performance-Gain-w-Cray-CX1-and-Windows-49106546.html 2009-06-25T18:23:07Z