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HRES 1498 110th Congress House Science, Technology, Communications Commemorations Commerce Computer industry Congressional tributes Engineering Infrastructure Laboratories New Mexico Research and development facilities Supercomputers

To honor the visionary and extraordinary work of Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM on the Roadrunner supercomputer.

Introduced: September 24, 2008 Introduced by: Welch, Peter Democratic · Vermont See on congress.gov
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Oct 10, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.
Sep 24, 2008
Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 24, 2008
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Honors the visionary and extraordinary work of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) for: (1) pushing the barriers of science and providing the United States with historic high-performance computing capabilities that will allow some of the most challenging problems in science and engineering to be solved, such as the safety of the nuclear deterrent of the United States, the humane genome, and climate change; and (2) achieving the capability to make petaflop calculations (1,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second) using the Roadrunner supercomputer which is considered a crucial milestone internationally and a sign of U.S. competitiveness in the critical new area of high-performance computing.

What's happening now October 10, 2008

Referred to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.

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