A federal report, created by the High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force (HECRTF), was released recently (May 2004) and offers some compelling insight into the government’s position and direction on high performance computing in the United States. This task force was formed by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), which was established by congress nearly 30 years ago to advise the President and others in the Executive Office about the impact of science and technology on US domestic and international affairs.

The report, appropriately titled “Federal Plan for High-End Computing”, calls for (among other things) significant increases in government funding (compared to that of ‘04) for systems engineering and prototypes as well as for software evaluation and testing, but minimal increases in funding for similar areas of hardware.

A copy of the report can be found here: http://www.itrd.gov/pubs/2004_hecrtf/20040702_hecrtf.pdf

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