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To: StanX Long who wrote (63059)	4/22/2002 12:55:48 AM
From: StanX Long	Respond to of 70976

Japanese laboratory creates world's fastest computer New York Times Posted on Fri, Apr. 19, 2002 siliconvalley.com A Japanese laboratory has built the world's fastest computer, a machine so powerful that it matches the raw processing power of the 20 fastest American computers combined and far outstrips the previous leader, an IBM-built machine. The achievement, reported Friday by an American scientist who tracks the performance of the world's most powerful computers, is evidence that a technology race U.S. engineers have generally thought they were winning handily is far from over. American companies have built the fastest computers for most of the past decade. The accomplishment is also a dramatic statement of contrasting scientific and technology priorities in the United States and Japan. The Japanese machine was built to analyze climate change, including global warming, as well as weather and earthquake patterns. The United States has predominantly focused its efforts on building powerful computers for simulating weapons.