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Budget Cuts Mean Layoffs for Supercomputing Staff at NASA

March 28, 2005/In: Funding, People, Policy, R&D in the Press /by Peter Harsha

Federal Computer Week has a depressing article today on the impact of recent and planned cuts to NASA’s IT programs. The agency’s IT R&D programs are due to decline $66 million in FY 2005, with a further cut of $89 million requested in the President’s FY 2006 budget — a figure that would represent a […]

DOE/IBM’s Blue Gene Nearly Doubles its Speed Record

March 25, 2005/In: R&D in the Press, Research /by Peter Harsha

BBC coverage of the jump to 135.5 teraflops. ZDNet has more. The feat won’t show up on the current Top500.org list until they release the next revision of the list, which I think will be in May (the last was released in November at the Supercomputing 2004 conference in Pittsburgh, and it seems to be […]

PITAC Cyber Security Report is Out!

March 18, 2005/In: R&D in the Press, Security /by Peter Harsha

The long-awaited PITAC report on Cyber Security, Cyber Security: A Crisis of Prioritization (pdf, 2.2mb) has just been released. The committee spent nearly a year reviewing the federal government’s cyber security R&D effort, a process we’ve covered in this space. The resulting report concludes that the IT infrastructure — beyond the public Internet — is […]