Supercomputer nears final approval

CHEYENNE – The National Science Board has given its approval to the proposed NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center, which moves the $530 million project ahead to its final hurdle of authorization by the National Science Foundation.

David Hosansky, a spokesman for the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the nonprofit that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said the board approved the project on May 5. The approval  “authorized the National Science Foundation to move ahead with it (the project),” he said in an e-mail.

NCAR in Boulder is heading up the project to build the new supercomputing center in Cheyenne. The center will…