Peter Harsha at the excellent Computing Research Policy Blog posted an update this week on the status of federally funded computing research in the various FY10 appropriations bills currently moving through the US Congress We’re in the end game for...

Ecoinsite is reporting this week about Syracuse University’s new green datacenter It’s a given that you’ll find energy-efficient servers, targeted cooling, and an energy monitoring and management platform, but it’s the on-site, “tri-generation” system...

Rich Bruekner has posted a link to a video from the recent Sun HPC Consortium featuring Sun’s Josh Simons, whose blog posts I invariably enjoy reading. Josh’s talk is not a product talk; instead, he’s talking about trends in the community as a whole....

Karen Green let me know by email that RENCI’s Stan Ahalt (who until recently was the head of OSC) was elected during SC09 to a second term as chair of the country’s preeminent academic supercomputing group, the Coalition for Academic Scientific...

I always liked the annual Detroit ritual of the concept car. I even like the name — “concept car.” Even if we never see anything that even remotely resembles these things in the showroom, it’s still cool to think that someone got the freedom to think...