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To: Neeka who wrote (80491)	10/26/2004 12:52:49 PM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 793799

I thought this was interesting about Gore: "Supercomputers are the steam locomotives of the information age," then-Senator Gore was quoted as saying in one article published in 1990. "In the Industrial Age, steam locomotives didn't do much good until the railroad tracks were laid down across the nation. Similarly, we now have supercomputers going into the seventh generation of supercomputers, but we don't have the interstate highways that we need to connect them. "Within four years, the top-of-the-line US$20 million supercomputers will cost less than $400,000. A few years after that, they will be in the $10,000 to $20,000 range." SEATTLE--October 25, 2004--Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today reported that it has begun shipping the Cray XT3™ supercomputer, an industry standard massively parallel processing (MPP) system that strongly advances the record-setting scalability and sustained application performance of the renowned Cray T3D™ and Cray T3E™ systems. U.S. list pricing for the Cray XT3 supercomputer begins at about $2 million. Oh well, what's a few orders of magnitude among friends? Of course, the high-end desktop of today at about $3K is probably more powerful than the supercomputers of 1990. So he was right, in that sense. He was right about something else too, the superhighway to connect. We have it now, with the fiber-optic backbone.