The DOE: agency under fire

Article Abstract:

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is preparing to address problems in its nuclear weapons programs and civilian-energy programs that will set the direction for the agency into the next century. The ability of the agency to solve its many problems will affect national security, the environment and the fuels to be used to drive the US economy. The DOE budget of $13.5 billion annually makes it the 10th largest cabinet-level agency; it runs nine top scientific and technical laboratories and dozens of other special-purpose laboratories and facilities, as well as electric-power generation and marketing organizations in Alaska and many other US regions. Among the problems in the DOE's weapons programs are unsafe managerial and operating practices at the five US nuclear materials production plants; steps being taken to address these and other problems are described.

Regulation, admin. of utilities, Management, Nuclear energy, United States. Department of Energy, Weapons industry, Environmental protection, Government Agency, National Government, Energy Management

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Balancing resources

Article Abstract:

Supercomputer performance improvements have been occurring at a rapid rate, but the storage requirements, data communications and computer power needed to access the supercomputer information has not been as dynamic. Supercomputer research has boosted memory size and computational processing rates, but converting data into an understandable output is still time-consuming. Research into local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) has provided some new technologies including synchronous optical network (SONET) and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM). Future storage and communications systems will involve one or more control hosts, a high-speed network for direct client-to-storage-device data flow and high-speed, high-capacity storage devices on the network.

Electronic computers, Research, Technological forecasting, Industrial research, Supercomputers, Supercomputer, Computer storage devices, Local area networks, Wide area networks, LAN, Performance improvement (Computers), Research and Development, Trends, Industry Analysis, Outlook, Future of Computing, Glossary, Performance Improvement, WAN, High-Density Storage

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