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High Performance Computing and Communications
A strong research program in communications and computers is essential
for a nation whose future is tightly linked to the success of
information technology. Government research partnerships with industry
have given the US a clear lead in key technologies. These programs
will be strengthened in FY96. The high performance computing program is
on the brink of accomplishing two of its most ambitious goals:
- a scaleable computer capable of sustaining one trillion operations
per second, and
- development of a nationwide network capable of sending a billion
bits of information a second.
Both goals represent a factor of 1000 gain over what was possible when
the project began three years ago.
FY96 programs include:
- high performance computing systems
- the National Research and Education Network
- Advanced Software Technology and Algorithms
- Basic research and human resources
- Information infrastructure technologies and applications
(FY96 interagency $1,142M)
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