Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science – New York Times
“Life: A Cosmic Journey,” a multimedia presentation now showing at the new Morrison Planetarium here at the California Academy of Sciences, relies not just on computer animation techniques, but on a wealth of digitized scientific data as well.
The Future of Broadband — in Tasmania – New York Times
By 2013, Tasmania plans to have the hyper-speed broadband available to nearly all its 500,000 citizens — and the government is installing it without charging the users. The plan is for the rollout to be completed throughout Australia five to seven years.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Reflections on the NSF Supercomputer Center Program – HPC Wire
In a position paper for community input at NSF’s Future of High Performance Computing Workshop in early December, Calit2 Director Larry Smarr reviewed the successes, failures and continuing challenges of the NSF supercomputing program that he helped create.
Calit2: Wireless health to drive preventative medicine – MobiHealthNews
Smarr said he's pushing the digital transformation of healthcare along with similar transformations in energy, the environment and "our culture" itself.
NBN ‘breathtaking’ – The Political Flâneur
Larry Smarr, one of the early pioneers of the Internet, says "the Rudd Government's announcement last month of a new broadband network is "breathtaking" and puts Australia at the forefront of government policy around the world embracing "intelligent infrastructure".