U.S. to support fewer supercomputer centers
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The National Science Foundation has announced plans to eliminate two of its four supercomputer research centers. The Foundation will finance two new programs, the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure and the National Computational Science Alliance. The first new program will focus on creating technology that would operate over a hundred times faster than computers and networks do at present. The program has two goals, to provide social scientists with data bases and supercomputers and to build scientific instruments that are supercomputer-based, and be accessible through high speed networks to researchers across the country. The second program's focus will be to provide advanced computing to a wide range of researchers.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1997
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U.S. finds supercomputer dumping by 2 Japan makers
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Fujitsu and NEC Corp have been found guilty of attempting to sell a supercomputer to an American weather research laboratory below cost, according to a Commerce Department preliminary finding. NEC's May 1996 bid to the National Center for Atmospheric Research for $35 million included four 32-processor SX-4 supercomputers. The finding is based on an anti-dumping petition filed by Cray Research with the International Trade Commission and the Commerce Department in Jul 1996. If the initial ruling by the Commerce Department is upheld, NEC may find itself dealing with harsh penalties on its US sales of supercomputers and machine upgrades. NEC officials do not believe they will receive a fair hearing by the Commerce Department.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1997
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