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The Computing Research Association (or CRA) has been involved in shaping public policy of relevance to computing research for more than two decades. More recently the CRA Government Affairs program has enhanced its efforts to help the members of the computing research community contribute to the public debate knowledgeably and effectively.

Tag Archive: HPC

Obama Administration Announces Ambitious New High Performance Computing Strategy

July 30, 2015/In: Policy, Research /by Brian Mosley

President Obama issued an Executive Order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative. This new initiative is to ensure the United States’ continued leadership position in High-Performance Computing in the coming decades.

China Leaps into Supercomputing Lead

October 28, 2010/In: American Competitiveness Initiative, R&D in the Press, Research /by Peter Harsha

Numerous news reports suggest that China’s Tianhe-1 supercomputer will top the newest ranking of the world’s fastest supercomputers when the list is released tomorrow. It’s not the first time that a non-U.S. machine has led the rankings — the Japanese NEC Earth Simulator led the list as recently as November 2004 — but it does […]