{"id":12763,"date":"2017-09-25T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2024-12-11T16:53:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T21:53:27","slug":"high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2017\/09\/25\/high-performance-computing-and-communications-archived-at-nlm\/","title":{"rendered":"High Performance Computing and Communications: Archived at NLM"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sally Howe ~
\nPeople today might use their smart phones without even thinking about how they work, let alone about the infrastructure that enables us to communicate and compute at a global (actually interplanetary<\/a>) scale, but today\u2019s reality is built on yesterday\u2019s imagination. Trailblazers had to envision something like today\u2019s information infrastructure and to communicate their foresight in such a way that stakeholders and users would willingly work together over decades to realize it. Much of that envisioning took place in the 1980s and early 1990s and led to the creation of the Federal High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program.<\/p>\n

Begun in 1992, the HPCC Program and its National Coordination Office (NCO) coordinated Federal research and development in high-performance computing, high-capacity and high-speed networking, and information technology by Federal science and technology agencies. HPCC initially included four large agencies\u2014ARPA<\/a>, DOE<\/a>, NASA<\/a>, and NSF<\/a>\u2014and four smaller ones\u2014EPA<\/a>, NIST<\/a>, NLM<\/a>, and NOAA<\/a>. There are now 14 agencies in the successor Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD<\/a>). NLM participates under the NIH umbrella.<\/p>\n