What China's supercomputing push means for the U.S.
China isn't downloading software off the Web to build its systems, it has design teams writing its software, says Argonne's Peter Beckman, who heads the DOE's exascale initiative.
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DOE wants 5X battery boost in 5 years
The U.S. Dept. of Energy has set a goal to develop battery and energy storage technologies that are five times more powerful and five times cheaper than today's within five years.
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Argonne researchers 'hack' Diebold e-voting system
Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory this week showed how an electronic voting machine model that's expected to be widely used to tally votes in the 2012 elections can be easily hacked using inexpensive, widely-available electronic components.
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U.S. Energy lab nabs 10-petaflop supercomputer for research
The <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/us-tries-fire-mighty-offshore-wind-energy-pro">U.S. Department of Energy</a> today said it would use IBM's 10-petaflop Blue Gene supercomputer to help researchers design ultra-efficient electric car batteries, understand <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/050410-layer8-energy.html">global climate change</a> and dig up space exploration mysteries.
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Obama turns attention to supercomputing
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's State of the Union Speech was so technology-focused that it buoyed expectations that U.S. investment in IT, particularly supercomputing, will survive his other plan to freeze domestic spending for five years.