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September 08, 2006, 12:55 PM ET
Government Grants for Supercomputing
The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced it was awarding $60-million for supercomputing projects at 70 universities and laboratories. The grants, which last from three to five years, are designed to accelerate research into new energy sources, global climate change, environmental cleanup methods, and physics, among other areas. One of the projects involves developing ways to manage huge amounts of data generated by supercomputers. Carnegie Mellon University scientists are leading the endeavor with help from scientists at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Michigan, and researchers at energy-department national laboratories of Los Alamos, Sandia, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley, and Pacific Northwest. The project has been awarded $11-million over five years. In a related development, the Council on Competitiveness released two studies this week touting the benefits to industry when it takes advantage of supercomputers at universities. The council is a nonprofit group made up of CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders.—Andrea L. Foster
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