Budget Cuts at NSF May Signal a Crisis in Computing

Critics say the U.S. has no clear plan for the future of supercomputers

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Many researchers warn that a crisis looms for academic supercomputing in the United States, largely because of what they see as the National Science Foundation's failure to support the technology adequately.

The agency is the principal source of

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