The US Department of Energy said today it will spend $32 million on a project that will deploy a large cloud computing test bed with thousands of Intel Nehalem CPU cores and explore commercial ...

The feds are getting serious about the cloud. But before they spend billions on it, they need to avoid both overeager adoption and the tendency to want to control everything According to Bloomberg, ...

Ultimately the project, known as Magellan, will look at cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient way for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including ...