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Souping up Supercomputing
Retooling the underpinnings of high-performance computing
A new federal initiative aims to boost research in technologies that will support the further development and use of supercomputers.
References:
1999. Information technology for the twenty-first century (IT2). National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications. Available at http://www.ccic.gov/.
1998. Briefing Paper on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Available at http://www2.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/html/presstest/19980810_2.html.
1998. Final Report of the DOE/NSF National Workshop on Advanced Scientific Computing. July. Arlington, Va. Available at http://www.er.doe.gov/ssi.
Further Readings:
Office of the Vice President. 1999. Information technology for the twenty-first century: A bold investment in America's future. Available at http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1999/1/25/12.text.1.
Peterson, I. 1998. Big-league computing. Science News 154(Dec. 12):383.
______. 1998. Overcoming quantum error. Science News 153(Feb. 21):127.
______. 1995. PetaCrunchers. Science News 147(April 15):234.
______. 1994. Clusters for a virtual supercomputer. Science News 146(Nov. 26):365.
______. 1994. Illuminating the fourth dimension. Science News 146(Nov. 12):319.
______. 1993. Going for glitz. Science News 144(Oct. 9):232.
Raloff, J. 1997. Vaulting the language barrier. Science News 151(March 8):150.
Wu, C. 1999. Budget boosts information technology. Science News 155(Feb. 6):87.
Additional information about the IT2 initiative can be found at the National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications Web site at http://www.hpcc.gov/.
Sources:
Jane Alexander
Defense Department Advanced Research Projects Agency
3701 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203-1714
Web site: http://www.darpa.mil
Rita Colwell
National Science Foundation
2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20418
Michael Knotek
Department of energy
Science and Technology
Office of the Undersecretary, S-3
Washington, DC 20585
Steven Koonin
California Institute of Technology
Mailstop Code 206-31
Pasadena, CA 91125
Neal Lane
Science Advisor
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
James Langer
University of California, Santa Barbara
Physics Department
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 9, February 27, 1999, p. 136. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.
