DOE Aiming to Solidify Natl Lab Cloud Strategies
The Energy Department has released a cloud computing strategy and overview for use by the department’s 22 national laboratories, Information Week reports. Nicholas Hoover writes the strategy is an attempt to put each lab’s cloud strategy on the same page but continue the department’s hands-off approach to information technology at the labs. The strategy includes [...]
NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Energy Department are co-sponsoring an innovation challenge aimed at harnessing the potential of big data, NASA announced Wednesday. Through the Big Data Challenge hosted by NASA’s tournament lab, competitors will come up with new analytical techniques and software tools that use big data from discrete government information domains. [...]
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Unisys has completed its transition of 5,000 personnel at the Energy Department‘s Idaho National Laboratory to a Google cloud-based email and collaboration platform, Unisys announced Wednesday. Battelle Energy Alliance, DOE’s management and operations contractor for the lab, awarded Unisys the contract in August 2011 to implement Google Apps for Government. Anthony Hess, group vice president [...]
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Hewlett-Packard and Intel will build a new data center for the Energy Department‘s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, with a goal of building the world’s most energy efficient data center. Environmental Leader reports the $10 million data center, to be located at the lab’s Golden, Colo. campus, could have an annual average power usage effectiveness rating of [...]
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An IBM-built supercomputer now holds the title of the world’s fasted computing system, the Energy Department announced Monday. Sequoia resides at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. and the National Nuclear Security Administration uses the supercomputer to help manage the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile. Technology website Top500.org released its list of the world’s 500 [...]
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The White House announced its plan to pursue research and development efforts in order to mine big data at the end of March. Six agencies said they planned to invest in R&D initiatives, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Geological Survey, the White House’s Office and Science and Technology Policy, the Defense Department [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security’s 2002 founding legislation indicates it can fund research and development projects for other agencies such as the Energy Department. However, Daniel Gerstein, DHS’ deputy undersecretary for science and technology, told a House subcommittee April 19 that the agency has too much emphasis on development and not enough on basic or [...]
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