Computerworld - The U.S. government shutdown has taken some government Web sites offline, including data.gov. But the nation's most powerful supercomputers continue to operate -- for now, at least. Government supercomputers are running on reserve funds from last year, a U.S. Department of Energy spokesperson said. How long can these systems continue to do so? "That fact is unknown at this point in time," the spokesman said.
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