Congress passed a bill Wednesday for $165 million in new supercomputing funding in the United States, a move that came a week after a report criticized current supercomputing as insufficient for the country’s security needs.
The bill, called the Department of Energy High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004, now needs the signature of President Bush to become law. The president is expected to sign the bill, a representative of the House Science Committee said.
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Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK – News) today announced that Singapore-based post-production house Infinite Frameworks has purchased a Discreet smoke

Working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Image Analysis facility at Kennedy Space Center is studying the Sarasota kidnapping video of Carlie Brucia to provide any new information possible to law enforcement officers. Kennedy Space Center is joining NASA

Federal agencies now possess the two most powerful computers on the Top 500 supercomputers list. The latest listing brings to an end the three-year run stranglehold on the top spot by the Japanese government. Even though this may be good news to those worried about the country’s computer supremacy, a report to be issued by the National Research Council ominously warns of the United States falling behind in its computer prowess despite these gains.
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When the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful computers is published Monday, the 10,240 processor “Columbia” supercomputer that Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) recently built for NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s) Ames Research Center is expected to be the number-two system on the list.
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