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NSF says high-performance computing shouldn't fixate on FLOPS
Declaring that high-performance computing can't be measured just in floating point operations per second, or FLOPS, the National Science Foundation says in an advance computing infrastructure
Public clouds for scientific applications cost up to 13x more
Public cloud computing environments for scientific applications have the potential to be up to 13 times more expensive than existing Energy Department supercomputing centers, finds a final report of
Congress funds exascale computer
The Energy Department is set to receive full funding for development of a supercomputer three orders of magnitude more powerful than today's most powerful computer--an exascale computer. Under a set
Senate harder on science appropriations than House
Many scientific federal efforts covered by the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies annual spending bill do relatively better under the House Appropriations Committee version than under
Exaflop supercomputer receives full funding from Senate appropriators
An Energy Department effort to create a super computer three orders of magnitude more powerful than today's most powerful computer--an exascale computer--would receive $126 million during the coming
NNSA turns to computer modeling to plug infrastructure data gap
The federal agency charged with maintaining the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile says it will make up for a lack of comprehensive data about its facilities and workforce with computer modeling. The
GAO reproaches NNSA for nuclear simulation supercomputer disaster recovery plans
Should the supercomputers used to model changes to the U.S. nuclear weapon stockpile fail due to a disaster, it's not clear whether the national laboratories in charge of them could easily recover
NOAA's supercomputers will improve weather forecasts
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has completed installation of two new IBM supercomputers that will greatly enhance the accuracy of weather forecasts, and provide earlier
