Last Thursday, NSF’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering directorate (CISE) officially unveiled their Global Environment for Networking Investigations (GENI) initiative, a program designed to “advance significantly the capabilities provided by networking and distributed systems.” As NSF points out in their fact sheet covering the program: The GENI Research Program will build on many years […]
The National Science Foundation has included a new, special section on computing research at NSF on the Foundation’s homepage. It’s a nice overview of the types of innovation that have resulted from their decades of support for fundamental research in computing, as well as some of the challenges ahead (pulled from CRA’s Grand Challenges in […]
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 […]
The British Computer Society, inspired by a similar effort undertaken by CRA, has released a report identifying seven “Grand Challenges” in computing research. The report, the result of a series of workshops and discussions featuring the UK’s top computer academics, calls for the continued development of a long-term research area in each of the following […]
Here’s the scoop: The 2005 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference has issued a call for participation seeking submissions for papers, panels, posters, birds-of-a-feather and workshop sessions for the three-day conference. Tapia 2005, the third in the series, will be held Oct. 19-22, 2005, in Albuquerque under the theme “A Diversity of Scholars […]
In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy, researchers at Penn State University determined that the National Science Foundation is the “most acknowledged” agency in computing research. The researchers “text-mined” 335,000 papers in computer science in the CiteSeer database and discovered the science agency had been acknowledged 12,287 times. DARPA was […]
This article I spotted today in Government Computer News on former Director of DHS’ National Cybersecurity Division Amit Yoran’s thoughts about DHS’ niche in federal cybersecurity efforts reminded me that I hadn’t provided an update on what I thought was a very interesting meeting of PITAC’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity R&D a week ago last Friday. […]
Tim Weiner has an interesting piece in today’s New York Times about the Defense Department’s efforts to build it’s own Internet — the Global Information Grid. From the article: The goal is to give all American commanders and troops a moving picture of all foreign enemies and threats – “a God’s-eye view” of battle. This […]
Just in time for the Supercomputing ’04 conference, the National Academies Computer Science and Telecommunications Board has released its report on the needs for U.S. supercomputing, Getting Up to Speed: The Future of Supercomputing. Study chairs Susan Graham, UC Berkeley, and Marc Snir, UIUC (and a CRA board member), will present the report here at […]
IBM’s Blue Gene/L, being built for the National Nuclear Security Agency at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, attained 70.72 teraflops in recent testing, more than twice as fast as the current top machine on the Top500.org supercomputers list. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham made the announcement today, noting that in its final form, the Blue Gene/L […]
