- Wed Jul 14 1999 Making supercomputers out of cheap parts
Compaq has passed a milestone in a government-sponsored project to create a fast but cheap supercomputer out of relatively ordinary parts.
- Mon Dec 26 2005 Cray to cut 8 percent of employees
Cray plans to cut 65 jobs, eliminating 8 percent of its staff by March 31, the supercomputer specialist disclosed in a regulatory filing.
- Tue Oct 23 2007 Department of Energy opens doors to tech entrepreneurs
Under the entrepreneur in residence program, the agency will invite executives to set up shop inside select labs to assess technologies.
- Sun Aug 14 2005 The solar engine that could
- Thu Jun 16 2005 Google founders invest in solar energy
- Mon Dec 16 1996 Intel, DOE build geek heaven
A supercomputer designed by Intel for the Department of Energy will eventually be part of an even more massive computer that will use more than 9,000 Pentium Pro processors.
- Mon Apr 19 1999 Nuclear labs restart computers
Three nuclear weapons labs have begun restarting their classified computers after a two-week halt prompted by security concerns.
- Wed Sep 18 2002 Chipset could give sight to the blind
A long-held hope could be approaching reality, as researchers in the United States get closer to an eye implant designed to restore sight to the blind.
- Wed Sep 10 1997 Initiative aims to create superchip
Intel, AMD, and others will join the Energy Department in a consortium to create a superchip 100 times more powerful than current chips.
- Tue Oct 7 2008 Government report: Data mining doesn't work well
Using data mining to try to detect terrorists is "neither feasible as an objective nor desirable as a goal of technology development efforts," new report finds.


