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Data Domain Case Study: Department of Energy Lab
White Papers The client is a Department of Energy lab, which was created in the late 1990s to study genome mapping, DNA sequencing and technology development. Challenged by the need to more rapidly backup and restore 20TB of large genomic data sets, the IT...
[August 18, 2006, 0:00]
HP to build Linux supercomputer
News Hewlett-Packard announced a high-profile contract Tuesday to build a Linux-powered supercomputer for the US Department of Energy. HP expects to have the supercomputer running at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in...
[April 17, 2002, 9:14]
US agencies demand tighter software security
News Five federal agencies, led by the US Department of Energy, plan to discuss a new set of government contracting practices that hold software makers accountable for making their products more resistant to viruses and hackers.
[September 23, 2003, 11:14]
Bush names new US 'CIO'
News President Bush has picked US Department of Energy chief information officer Karen Evans to become administrator of information technology and e-government for the federal government. Before taking the Energy Department position, Evans ran the...
[September 4, 2003, 11:10]
Government invites bids for £22m marine energy fund
News In a statement released on Tuesday, the Department for Energy and Climate Change announced that interested parties could now bid for access to the Marine Renewables Proving Fund, which was originally announced in July.
[September 22, 2009, 17:29]
Superfast Ethernet project aims for 100Gbps
News Scientists will collaborate with as-yet-unnamed hardware and software vendors to develop a prototype 100Gbps Ethernet network, which will be used to connect US Department of Energy supercomputer centres.
[August 12, 2009, 16:50]
Defra equips staff with 'green' laptops
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is moving 10,000 civil servants to energy-saving laptops, as part of its 'Renew IT' programme. The report stated that attention should be paid to reconditioning hardware rather than buying new...
[July 21, 2008, 9:23]
An end to recharging for mobile phones
News Casio, Siemens and other manufacturers of phones and PDAs are already building prototype devices that use the new power cells, developed at the Department for Energy Technology at the Fraunhofer-Institute -- Germany's answer to MIT.
[April 18, 2001, 14:25]
Compaq, nuclear lab teaming on supercomputer
News The deal is expected to be announced Friday at a Department of Energy news conference in Washington. Energy Department officials said outgoing Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and others will formally announce the agreement.
[January 19, 2001, 16:04]
SCO takes on US government supercomputers
News SCO sent letters raising the prospect of legal action for using Linux to two Department of Energy facilities, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Centre (NERSC).
[March 22, 2004, 11:30]
'Confidential US security documents' flaunted online
News According to the Web site hosting this information, the Department of Energy accidentally published the documents online. The administrators also wrote that a person claiming to be from the Department of Energy had telephoned them, asking that the...
[January 24, 2005, 15:45]
Gassy batteries pump up the power
News The pace at which scientists are developing new energy sources for portable electronics is dramatically speeding up as the industry races to make smaller devices with longer-lasting batteries. Meanwhile, a team from Cornell University last month...
[November 14, 2002, 7:53]
White House unveils cloud computing initiative
News But it is evident the administration hopes that for many agencies, the site will eventually be a one-stop shop for the kinds of services that to date have required extensive IT spending, and Kundra said he believes some at the Department of Energy...
[September 16, 2009, 13:25]
IBM's low-powered PC quest
News Overall, about 10 percent of the electricity consumed in North America goes to support information technology systems, according to a US Energy Department study cited by IBM. The company will also create tools for companies to analyze the energy...
[August 7, 2002, 10:25]
A little light discipline
Leader A major part of proceedings was the message that virtualisation can cut energy use, save money and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by significant amounts. There is no point in developing ever-more efficient IT if corporate philosophy sees wanton...
[December 6, 2006, 16:09]
US Energy Dept hands out $20m for tech research
News The US Energy Department has decided to award IBM and Corning $20m (£11.9m) to develop high-speed connection hardware for next-generation supercomputers, Big Blue is expected to announce on Tuesday. The IBM-Corning work falls under the Energy...
[November 4, 2003, 11:25]
Gartner to CIOs: 'You're in business, not IT'
News Peter Sondergaard, head of research at Gartner: "IT budgets will increase in 2008, as will uncertainty and energy prices.spells boom times for the IT industry, but the economy is careening headlong into stormy weather.
[November 22, 2007, 9:18]
Blue Gene/L beats own speed record
News ASC Purple, originally called ASCI Purple, got the first part of its name from the Department of Energy's Advanced Simulation and Computing program, which was designed to guarantee that U.S.nuclear weapons would continue to work even as they age...
[October 28, 2005, 8:20]
Google does the business with new search hardware
News It has signed on customers such as Kaiser Permanente, the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory, and the California Department of Transportation, among others. Google plans today to introduce new hardware and software to...
[September 30, 2002, 9:20]
Chancellor promises emerging-tech investment
News Through £405m of new funding, we will.encourage low carbon energy and advanced green manufacturing in Britain, to drive the application of new technology and invest in small-scale projects," said Darling.
[April 22, 2009, 17:22]
