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DOE Awards 265 Million Processor-Hours To Science Projects

Posted by Zonk on from the yay-i-get-to-compute dept.

Weather Storm writes "DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program supports computationally intensive, large-scale research projects at a governmental level. They recently awarded 265 million processor-hours to 55 scientific projects, the largest amount of supercomputing resource awards donated in the DOE's history and three times that of last year's award. The winners were chosen based on their potential breakthroughs in the areas of science and engineering research, and the suitability of the project for using supercomputers. This year's INCITE applications ranged from developing nanomaterials to advancing the nation's basic understanding of physics and chemistry, and from designing quieter cars to improving commercial aircraft design. The next round of the INCITE competition will be announced this summer. Expansion of the DOE Office of Science's computational capabilities should approximately quadruple the 2009 INCITE award allocations to close to a billion processor hours."

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  1. its scary to think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    there are botnets out there that are offering the same thing on the black market

    1. Re:its scary to think by kestasjk · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Can you provide a source? The people who estimate how large botnets are make money by scaring people (e.g. Symantec). The computing power would also clearly be very distributed, and it's hard to think of a criminal use for it.

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  2. Re:Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    (that joke was soo bad, I HAVE to post AC) You made the right decision.
  3. Honestly by peipas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Define your acronyms the first time you use them. This summary got it half right. If the submitter fails to do this, please pick up the slack editors. If you don't know what to put, that should be a red flag not to post it.