UT-ORNL victory makes a few waves
Apr 9th, 2008
The National Science Foundation funds research activities at universities in much the way the U.S. Department of Energy funds work at the national labs.
It’s those traditional roles that stirred controversy last year when a University of Tennessee-led team won a $65 million Track II grant from the NSF to fund a next-generation supercomputer, capable of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
Some university folks, especially those on losing teams in the national competition, weren’t thrilled that UT’s team won the grant, even if it wasn’t the top award.
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