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

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Introduced

31 July 2008

Last action

31 July 2008 · Introduced

Status

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7974)

Summary

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 human 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.

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31 July 2008
Introduced
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7974)
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31 July 2008
Introduced
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7974-7975)
Source: IntroReferral
31 July 2008
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/110th-congress/senate-resolution/637
Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/110/sres/637
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