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A $65 million National Science Foundation grant has been awarded to the University of Tennessee for construction of a second high-speed supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Thomas Zacharia will manage the new supercomputer program for the university and laboratory. "The National Science Foundation - because it is an academic machine - will have different cyber security rules than the DOE machine," Zacharia says. "This machine will be on a separate network than our machine, but it shares practices between the two programs and also lots of users." Zacharia says the two supercomputer systems will solidify East Tennessee's reputation as a world computational science leader. "I know that there is not another place in the country where you have a major National Science Foundation academic supercomputer and a major Department of Energy supercomputing installation." Listen to the audio clip at: http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/audios/NSFComputer%201%2011.mp3