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Provisions promoting workforce development and energy efficient operations, among others, are included in the legislation.
As the Energy Department prepares to launch America’s first of several next-generation exascale supercomputers, a couple Republican lawmakers want Congress to consider future-facing investments for the even higher performing machines that will follow.
Rep. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., recently introduced the Next Generation Computing Research and Development Act, which lays out multiple provisions intended to help pave the way for systems and technologies that will surpass classical computing capabilities.
“The future of innovation lies in our ability to unlock new answers about the workings of our world,” Obernolte said in a statement. “Those answers will only come with the help of the next generation of supercomputers.”
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Florida International University (FIU) and Energy Science Network (ESnet) have been awarded a two-year, $760,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure research grant for Q-Factor, a framework that enables high-speed data transfer optimization.
Q-Factor, a concept developed by FIU and ESnet, will help automate the data transfer speed between computers at end points. The technology, for example, will help increase the speed with which an office computer (one end point) receives a large data file from a web server (another end point). This optimization will allow for smoother data transfer across a high-speed network.
As the trend towards data-intensive research continues, scientists and university IT experts are investing significant resources to facilitate the efficient movement of large amounts of data from computers that are far apart from each other. Because many university campus networks are not currently co
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IMAGE: TACC s Ranch supercomputer, a long-term data mass storage system, is safely preserving over three petabytes of data from the Arecibo radio telescope. Ranch is an allocated resource of the Extreme. view more
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Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope s collapse in December 2020. What they would not have seen from those videos was Arecibo s data center, located outside the danger zone. It stores the golden copy of the telescope s data the original tapes, hard drives, and disk drives of sky scans since the 1960s.
Now, a new partnership will make sure that about three petabytes, or 3,000 terabytes, of telescope data is securely backed up off-site and made accessible to astronomers around the world, who will be able to use it to continue Arecibo Observatory s legacy of discovery and innovation.