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The U.S. Is Busy Building Supercomputers, but Needs Someone to Run Them

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The U.S. doesn’t lack for supercomputers but it needs more people trained to operate them, writes Dan Lyons

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As I reported recently in Newsweek, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are racing to build a new supercomputer, called Sequoia, that they hope will be the most powerful machine in the world once it’s completed by the end of 2012.

Meanwhile, another team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced...

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