Officials from academe, industry, and the Bush administration told senators Wednesday that Congress should spend more than $1-billion in the next fiscal year on supercomputing projects in various federal agencies.
“High-performance computing has been – and will continue to be – a cornerstone in the government’s networking and information technology R&D portfolio,” Simon Szykman, director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development, said in prepared testimony to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness.
“National interest, academia, and the high-performance-computing community are joined at the hip,” testified Joseph Lombardo, director of the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
The texts of prepared testimony are available on the committe’s Web site. —Vincent Kiernan
