Posted on 06/12/2013 8:34:51 PM PDT by Nachum
The White House announced the opening of a new government supercomputing center in northern Maryland this week. Patricia Falcone of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) attended a ceremony to mark the occasion along with Maryland Senator Ben Cardin and various army officials:
OSTP’s Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs Dr. Patricia Falcone provided keynote remarks yesterday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of the US Army Research Laboratory’s (ARL) new supercomputing center at Aberdeen Proving Ground in northern Maryland...
The new ARL Supercomputing Center—containing two new IBM iDataPlex computers with the capacity to perform 50,000 trillion floating point operations per second, or 50 petaflops—will provide state-of-the art high performance computing capabilities as well as extraordinary capacities in advanced high-speed networking and data analysis, providing unprecedented benefits to the Army, the Department of Defense, and the Nation as a whole.
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As I told Obama, “It’s all in the timing”.
Guess he listened.
Welcome back to “1984”, George.
can’t make this stuff up.
I can hardly wait...
Dem gov Martin O Malley is grateful to Republicans for this increase in the Maryland gravy train.
This state would not be as nearly as Blue as it is without all the Defense money congress sends it.,
“Let’s play a game.”
No you can’t..........our government is becoming like a good summer read, similar to a freaky Stephen King novel.
at least you could close the novel and make the story go away.
It’s as if Barry is saying: “in your face” to Americans worried that Obama is a dictator.
Comrade Jeryl Bier: “Comrades! I have glorious news for you! The new ‘Floating e-fortress’ doubleplusgood supercomputer will provide unprecedented benefits to the Homeland!”
All over America there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations as workers streamed out of factories carrying banners and expressing their gratitude for the new, happy life bestowed upon the nation, having learned that the wise leadership has demonstrated such strong concern for and interest in our well-being, medical records, e-mail conversations and posts on America’s ‘Premier Conservative Site.’
Unfortunately, comrades, the joy was somewhat dampened by a thoughtcriminal, using gambling devices as an appellation, subsequently taken to Room 101, who said,
“Kiss my grits!”
Zippy’s new Blackberry. Now he can get all the inner city free EBT phone and icecream
Yet another “supercomputing center”? Which Congressman’s vote did this one buy?
Everything he does and says is “in your face”...when are our illustrious leaders in Congress going to open their eyes and ears? Never I guess.
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