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To: c.hinton who wrote (82538)	2/26/2002 12:48:31 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116810

These guys are not very imaginative. Unless they are Russian or Chinese. Even then, everyone knows that a Cray cannot keep up to a bunch of cheap Linux run boxes on shelves (Lobos). Ganged cheap computers outcomputing Crays has been around since the late 1970's and the Russians had this technology. The first breaking of 128 bit RSA code was done by merely 1600 PC's on the internet. The Titanic's graphics were calculated by a few humdred Linux PC's networked together. Even I have a ten cluster PC Linux newtwork. In the near future we may be computing the weather 3 weeks ahead accurately by ganging together say, 100,000 PC's on the Internet according to a professor from the U of T. Now that is computing with some usefulness. EC<:-}