Oak Ridge’s Titan Tops Fastest Supercomputer List
U.S. national laboratories operate five out of the 20 fastest supercomputers in the world, Information Week reports. Citing a survey from Top500.org, Patience Wait writes Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Titan supercomputer takes the top spot in this year’s list. Titan is used for nuclear power research and development of materials used for manufacturing and modeling [...]
The Department of Homeland Security‘s National Cyber Security Division and the Idaho National Laboratory have won the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for creating a series of training programs on defending the power grid and other utility systems, according to a SANS Institute announcement. The programs were created by the DHS Controls Systems Security Program and [...]
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The North American Electric Reliability Corporation is setting up a cyber-attack task force to evaluate and help protect the U.S. power grid in the event of an web assault, according to a release from the electric reliability organization. The 40-volunteer strong task force will identify opportunities to boost existing protection, resilience and recovery capabilities associated [...]
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