IBM, Nvidia Get $325 Million to Build 2 Supercomputers.

The article discusses the efforts by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) to promote computer industry in the U.S. It mentions that DoE has awarded 325 million U.S. dollars to technology companies IBM, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies to build two supercomputers by the year 2017. DoE has also initiated a FastFoward 2 program, under which 100 million U.S. dollars are given to technology companies Intel, IBM and Cray to develop extreme scale computing technologies.