The U.S. Department of Energy says it has allocated some 95 million hours of supercomputing resources from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of an initiative to accelerate scientific research and promote innovations in public institutions and private industry. Supported by DOE’s Office of Science, seven research projects will receive the time in 2007. Projects range from studying the behavior of a supernova to designing more energy-efficient cars.

The allocations are part of a growing program called Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE), which launched in 2003. INCITE selects projects that require large-scale and intensive use of computers and promise to deliver a significant advance in science and engineering. The program awarded 95 million processor hours go to 45 projects overall, a five-fold increase in computing time awarded from 2006. Read the rest at Supercomputing.com