Washington DC: United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1984. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has minor wear and soiling. 190 pages. Index. NASA TM-87394. Limited Distribution Notice date for general release was May 1987. This publication represents the NSAS research and technology program for FY 1985. It is a compilation of the summary portion of the Research and Technology Objectives and Plans RTOPs. It was believed that this publication would help the technology transfer process. United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback
Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office 1962. Book. Paperbound with Stiff Covers. v 107p. A near fine copy the back cover of which has a 1 1/2" crease that is visible into page eighty-three. Size: 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall. Government Printing Office unknown
Washington DC: United States Department of Energy 2009. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. Cover has slight wear and soiling. xii 159 12 p. Includes illustrations. Some illustrations in color. References. This publication was prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830 by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reprot number PNNL-19379. From Wikipedia: "Exascale computing refers to computing systems capable of at least one exaFLOPS. Such capacity represents a thousandfold increase over the first petascale computer that came into operation in 2008. One exaflop is a thousand petaflops or a quintillion 1018 floating point operations per second. At a supercomputing conference in 2009 Computerworld projected exascale implementation by 2018. In January 2012 Intel purchased the InfiniBand product line from QLogic for US $125 million in order to fulfill its promise of developing exascale technology by 2018. The initiative has been endorsed by two US agencies: the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration. The technology would be useful in various computation-intensive research areas including basic research engineering earth science biology materials science energy issues and national security. The United States has put aside $126 million for exascale computing beginning in 2012. Three projects aiming at developing technologies and software for exascale computing have been started in 2011 within the European Union. The CRESTA project Collaborative Research into Exascale Systemware Tools and Applications the DEEP project Dynamical ExaScale Entry Platform and the project Mont-Blanc. The Indian Government has committed USD 2 Billion to ISRO and Indian Institute of Science IISc Bangalore to develop a supercomputer with a performance of 132.8 exaflops by 2017. ISRO has already booked key equipment to develop the first Indian exaflop supercomputer. Most of the sub-systems will be developed in India." United States, Department of Energy paperback
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1942. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. viii 255 p. Includes illustrations. 77th Congress 2d Session. House Document No. 891. This report covers a very difficult period in the development of price control a period inaugurated with the issuance by the Office of the General Manimum Price Regulation and accompanying rent orders the first move in the President's anti-inflation progra. These measures were taken in the expectation that thedirect control of the cost of living thereby established would be reinforced by the control of the basic inflationary forces as contemplated in the President's program. However during this period the inflationary pressures continued to build up. This report contains numerous charts and a wealth of information by commodity groups and other groupings. These documents have becoming increasingly scarce in the secondhand scholarly and collector communities. United States Government Printing Office paperback
NASA 1963. 25 pp. softcover very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. NASA paperback
Washington DC: United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration 2005. Presumed First Edition First issuance thus. VHS Tape. Very good. This is a standard VHS tape approximately 4 inches by 7 inches with a hand written label stating Surveillance Training - SFIs 45 min. No classification or information use limitation on label or tape sleeve. The tape has been partially played but not rewound. Significant Finding Investigations were addressed in DOE/IG-0535 Audit Report Management of the Stockpile Surveillance Program's Significant Finding Investigations December 2001. The Directors of the three nuclear weapons laboratories annually assess and report the condition of the weapon systems for which their laboratories are responsible. A critical event in this process is the identification of a defect or malfunction during surveillance testing. This is especially important when dealing with an aging weapons stockpile. Departmental procedures require preliminary tests or evaluations to establish whether a Significant Finding Investigation SFI should be initiated. Such investigations are then conducted to determine the identified problem's cause and impact and to recommend corrective actions. Weapons surveillance began in the US in the mid-1960s when weapons testing was done through underground explosions of nuclear devices. Such testing continued until the early 1990s. If tests on a weapon system show an anomaly - a possible problem with a part that could jeopardize the system operation - with a system evaluation engineer SEE is notified. It is the SEE's job to determine if the anomaly could affect the surety safe use or reliability of the weapon. If the SEE makes that determination he/she opens a "significant finding investigation SFI. The responsibility of the investigation team is to determine the cause and impact of the defect and to make recommendations for corrective actions. United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration unknown
CD. As new. This item is still in its original plastic wrap. The rear of the sleeve lists the contents: Overview Defense Applications and Modeling; Simulation and Computer Science Integrated Computing Systems University Partnerships Special Projects ASCI's future ASCI's Multidisciplinary Applications. Among the subsections are: Visualization Technilogies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Visualization Technologies at Sandia National Laboratories ASCI White at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Science at the Level 1 Alliances and Technology Prospectus. The U.S. Department of Energy DOE established the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative ASCI in 1996. The goal of ASCI is to simulate the results of new weapons designs as well as the effects of aging on existing and new designs all in the absence of underground nuclear tests. The ASCI is an applications-driven effort with a goal to develop reliable computational models of the processes involved in the design manufacture and degradation of nuclear weapons. Based on discussions with scientists and engineers with expertise in weapons design manufacturing and in computational physics a goal of simulating full-system three-dimensional nuclear burn and safety simulation processes by the year 2004 was established. A number of applications-based milestones were identified to mark the progress from current simulation capabilities to full-system simulation capabilities. Codes development to simulate casting material aging safety forging welding of microstructures and so on. unknown
Washington DC; Boca Raton FL: National Archives Trust Fund Board; Social Issues Resources Series Inc. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Slipcase has been damaged but the contents are in good condition. vii 79 p. Includes illustrations. Glossary. Annotated bibliography. Time Line. In addition to the 86 page booklet there are a series of f54 acsimile documents all present provided for classroom use. This is the fourth in a special series to make National Archives records available to the public in appropriate forms in part through the work of its Office of Educational Programs in producing a series of supplementary tearching units. National Archives Trust Fund Board; Social Issues Resources Series, Inc hardcover
Washington DC: United States Department of Energy Energy Information Administration 1994. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. Covers have slight wear and soiling. 2 volume set. xiii 91 v159 p. Includes illustrations. Glossary. From an EPA website: "Reformulated gasoline RFG is gasoline blended to burn more clearly than conventional gasoline and to reduce smog-forming and toxic pollutants in the air we breathe. The RFG program was mandated by Congress in the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments. The first phase of the RFG program began in 1995 and the second current phase began in 2000. RFG is required in cities with high smog levels and is optional elsewhere. RFG is currently used in 17 states and the District of Columbia. About 30 percent of gasoline sold in the U.S. is reformulated. The air quality benefits RFG has achieved represent a significant part of the country's smog reduction strategy. The RFG program combined with other industrial and transportation controls aimed at smog reduction is contributing to the long-term downward trend in U.S. smog levels. About 75 million people breathe cleaner air because of RFG." United States Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration paperback