The U.S. government was at the forefront of the race to petascale computing–that’s a quadrillion calculations per second for those of you counting–with computers like Los Alamos National Lab’s Roadrunner and Oak Ridge National Lab’s Jaguar, and Congress has now thrown i...
The federal government maintained its leadership in supercomputing with five of the top 10 of the world’s most powerful machines under its management, according to a biannual list of the top supercomputers. However, a Japanese supercomputer called K computer–run by the RIKEN Advanced I...
Cloud computing can help the Central Intelligence Agency do its job better, faster, cheaper, and even more securely, CIA CTO Gus Hunt said in a keynote address Tuesday at InformationWeek Government‘s GovCloud event in Washington, D.C. “Cloud computing has emerged to enable us to deliver...