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Service - The U.S. is falling behind Japan in the area of
supercomputing, as federal research agencies have shifted their
focus toward grid computing in the past decade, according to
witnesses at a congressional hearing Wednesday. The result is
that U.S. companies have less access to supercomputing resources
because demand from the U.S. government has traditionally driven
the supercomputing industry in the U.S., critics of the
government's efforts in high-performance computing told the
House Science Committee. "The federal government cannot rely on
fundamental economic forces to advance high-performance
computing capability," said Vincent Scarafino, manager of
numerically intensive computing at Ford Motor. "The federal
government should help with the advancement of high-end
processor design and other fundamental components nec