Durable Engines of Discovery.

The article examines how U.S. federal research funding has shaped developments in computing and computational science since the 1940s. It highlights investments by federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the creation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard, and the de...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 12; pp. 66 - 74
Main Author: Dongarra, Jack
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Dec2025
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