The Soul of the Ultimate Machine – New York Times
The Internet, he explained, is evolving into a single vast computer fashioned out of billions of interconnected processors. Then he went another step: ''The real question, from a software point of view, is: Will it become self-aware?''
Larry Smarr To Direct Cal-(IT)2 – HPC Wire
San Diego, CALIF. — Governor Gray Davis announced that the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2], led by UC San Diego in partnership with UC Irvine, has been selected as one of three California Institutes for Science and Innovation.
NCSA Unveils ROADRUNNER Linux-based Workstation Supercluster – HPC Wire
The National Computational Science Alliance will introduce its first 128 processor workstation supercluster running the Linux operating system as the latest addition to the National Technology Grid, its arsenal of powerful computational resources.