March 8, 2004—The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will link supercomputers to allow better and faster runs of environmental models such as the Community Multi-Scale Air Quality model, an important tool for states to meet upcoming deadlines for their air quality attainment plans. With the goal of expanding research and computing collaboration, the agreement between the two agencies will promote and conduct research that results in high quality products that strengthen environmental health.
As part of this agreement, EPA and DOE will create a high performance computing network and share scientific resources in important evolving research areas including: computational toxicology, genomics, nanotechnology, remote sensing, bioinformatics, and sustainable energy use. The agreement will further promote a “collaboratory” or virtual science laboratory without walls, in which researchers can share scientific products regardless of geographical location.
