“The federal government and top researchers are
investigating whether supercomputer software development should go
open source. The announcement was made last Monday evening at
the industry’s annual confab, Supercomputing ’99, held this year in
Portland, Oregon.”
“With the end of the Cold War, supercomputing projects have been
squeezed by budget pressures. The government and the supercomputing
community will take a deep look at open source as a way to keep
world class research going without great new gobs of federal
funding.”