IP: National Science Foundation to Fund Supercomputer

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-tech-supercomput.html

> National Science Foundation to Fund Supercomputer
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> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The National Science Foundation said it will 
> spend $53 million to build a massive computing grid that will be the most 
> powerful of its kind ever completed and could lead to ground-breaking 
> research that would have otherwise taken years, if not decades, to complete.
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> Called the Distributed Terascale Facility, or DTF, it will be used by four 
> U.S. research centers for research in areas including molecular modeling 
> for detecting diseases, cures and drug discovery, research on alternative 
> energy sources, climate and atmospheric simulations, among others.



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