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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (34455)8/16/2000 8:38:20 PM
From: E_K_S  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Compaq said to have beat Sun in supercomputer bid
By Bloomberg News
August 16, 2000, 3:45 p.m. PT
HOUSTON--Compaq Computer is expected to announce Friday it won a contract to build the largest supercomputer, The Financial Times of London reported in its online edition, citing a Compaq executive.

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded the contract, worth more than $100 million, and Compaq beat Sun Microsystems in securing the business, the FT said.

The contract will help the company expand beyond the maturing personal computer market, the FT reported.

Earlier this month, Compaq and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center said they won a $45 million government contract to build the largest supercomputer to be used for nonsecret scientific research, capable of processing 6 trillion mathematical calculations per second.

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I wonder if SUNW's UltraIII could be configured to beat out CPQ's offering for "the largest suputercomputer". It would be nice to see SUNW receive the $100 million contract rather than CPQ. What might have Sunw proposed vs CPQ. It seems to me that that SUNW should have had the "best" system based on performance. What OS do you think CPQ proposed? UNIX or Windows?

EKS
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