Revitalize HPC, but do it frugally
The House has passed the High-Performance Computing Revitalization Act of 2005, which (to borrow the words of Federal Computer Week) “is supposed to resuscitate federal interest in the field.” The bill requires NSF and DOE to guarantee supercomputer access to U.S. researchers, and puts the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in charge of coordinating federal efforts (currently that’s John Marburger, formerly the head of Brookhaven National Lab). According to FCW, the bill also “asks for better software, standards and training, in addition to hardware.”
The downside? The bill doesn’t include any new funding.
