HPC Wire: Government

National Computational Science Institute, XSEDE Offer Workshops to Educators

Thu, 10 May 2012 13:22:43 EDT

XSEDE and the National Computational Science Institute are encouraging educators to participate in workshops held around the country during the summer.

US Energy Secretary Talks Supercomputing

Robert Gelber — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:14:57 EDT

Steven Chu discusses the role of supercomputing in energy research.

ESnet Launches Architecture to Help Researchers Deliver on Data-Intensive Science

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:50:12 EDT

In order to help research institutions capitalize on the growing availability of high-bandwidth networks to manage their growing data sets, the DOE's Energy Sciences Network, known as ESnet, is working with the scientific community to encourage the use of a network design model called the “Science DMZ.” Leading the development of this effort is Eli Dart, a network engineer with previous experience at Sandia National Laboratories and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. In this interview, Dart talks about the nature of the project and explains how such an architecture can help researchers.

China Looks to a National Processor Architecture

Robert Gelber — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:53:47 EDT

Government wants to standardize on a single ISA to spur the domestic market and lessens it reliance on foreign chips

New DOE Department to Process Massive Data Sets

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:12:02 EDT

The newly established Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization (SDAV) Institute has been created by the Department of Energy. The Institute will tack big data problems under the government's recent $200 million big data initiative.