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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Neocon who wrote (44114)	10/9/2000 4:46:51 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) of 769667

The fastest computers in the world (Big Red, Big Blue) are massively parallel computers with thousands of microprocessors and belong to the Department of Energy (as at Sandia NL). These chips can be bought off the shelf at any computer store for a few hundred dollars each. The circuitry is available to anyone who wants to look. It is a nuisance to have to reconstruct the things from scratch, but many dirt cheap supercomputers have been constructed from bits and pieces at American universities. The Chinese have many people well-trained in computer engineering at our best graduate schools. Only two of the known fastest 500 supercomputers are in China, one at Motorola and one at the Meteorological (Weather) Bureau. If we hadn't sold 'em, Japan would have. Even we buy supercomputers from Japan.

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