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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

CIO Business Intelligence

For respondents anticipating an HPC budget reduction, the goal is to reallocate dollars to sustainability initiatives. Since 2001, Durham University’s tier 1 national supercomputing facility has supported scientists and researchers around the world and is using HPC to build a digital simulation of the universe, starting with the Big Bang.

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IT leaders adjust budget priorities as economic outlook shifts

CIO Business Intelligence

Budget planning during uncertain economic times is never CIOs’ favorite activity. For the most part, budgets are holding steady or growing in the single digits, with continued investments in security, analytics, and the cloud, among other areas. But the next eighteen months aren’t shaping up to be as challenging as some may fear.

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- Tech Nightmares Frighten a CIO

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

In my data center. The City of Seattle has multiple data centers, but our main one, constructed in 2001, has well over $15 million of stuff in it. Things like the e-mail servers used by the entire City government, or the disk array holding all our financial data. Or Fire followed by Water.