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Feds fund research into high-performance demands
THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF Energy is investing $11 million in a project to solve the storage problems of high-speed supercomputers, a move that ultimately may help businesses handle their own spiraling storage demands.
The money is being used to fund the Petascale Data Storage Institute, a research group of universities and government labs led by Carnegie Mellon University, which will tackle the storage challenges posed by next-generation supercomputers. With users now planning to deploy petaflop machines capable of a quadrillion (a million billion) calculations a second, the strain on storage will be immense, warns Garth Gibson, associate professor of computer science...