Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: NSF
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A Call to HPC Action
The U.S. lacks a coherent strategy for developing future high-performance computing systems, ones critical for national security, economic growth, and scientific discovery.
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Public Higher Education: A New Social Compact for Innovation
It is time for us to collaboratively and thoughtfully rethink the social compact surrounding public higher education. This includes defining the 21st century knowledge economy version of the public land-grant university
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Working the Hill
It is critical that the U.S. increase investment in basic research, expand and diversify the workforce, and broaden the geography of innovation.
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NCSA@30: Reflections on the Revolution
My time as NCSA director was exhilarating and exciting, as an incredible team invented the future. That is – and always will be – NCSA’s mission.
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Quantifying Innovation and Investment
According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), federal funding for research, development, and facilities has declined from 1.23 percent of gross domestic product in fiscal year 1976 to an estimated 0.75 percent in the President’s proposed 2015 budget.
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Exascale Software: Just a Few Orders of Magnitude
Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for exascale computing.