Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Fast Computers Five sites capable of storing a petabyte of data are being connected by a 40 gigabit per second network to form what is being promoted as the fastest network in the world.  The project, known as Teragrid, is funded by the National Science Foundation.  Proposals for computing projects to run on the network are now being accepted. Only one of the computers on the Teragrid network are among the 10 fastest computers in the world according to this recently published survey  Sixty percent of the top twenty are owned by the US government.  Half of the top 6 are at Lawrence Livermore. Lawrence Livermore has several interesting homeland security research programs and has expressed an interest in state and local partnerships.  I think we should look into their information analysis and infrastructure protection program to see if there is such an opportunity.  Last week, they announced RadScout, a lightweight handheld portable system that not only detects radioactive material, but then analyzes and identifies the source in real time. 10:08:48 AM    comment []

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