S.Res. 637 · 110th Congress
A resolution to honor the visionary and extraordinary work of Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM on the…
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A resolution to honor the visionary and extraordinary work of Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM on the Roadrunner supercomputer.
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Honors the visionary and extraordinary work of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) for: (1) pushing the barriers of science and providing the United States with historic high-performance computing capabilities that will allow some of the most challenging problems in science and engineering to be…
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Jul 31, 2008
Honors the visionary and extraordinary work of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) for: (1) pushing the barriers of science and providing the United States with historic high-performance computing capabilities that will allow some of the most challenging problems in science and engineering to be solved, such as the safety of the nuclear deterrent of the United States, the human genome, and climate change; and (2) achieving the capability to make petaflop calculations (1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second) using the Roadrunner supercomputer, which is considered a crucial milestone internationally and a sign of U.S. competitiveness in the critical new area of high-performance computing.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
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Official title: A resolution to honor the visionary and extraordinary work of Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM on the Roadrunner supercomputer.
Latest action (Jul 31, 2008): Referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7974)
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Jul 31, 2008
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No recorded floor vote found.