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Post number 13362

HoldenCaulfield — Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:04:26 -0800

Bush Admin contemplating the quarantine of super computers made in the US.

By: atom128

atom128 — Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:07:37 -0800

why worrry about supercomputers when you can get a bunch of pretty nice but not quite super ones and network!

By: HoldenCaulfield

HoldenCaulfield — Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:22:56 -0800

This is exactly what he said he wasn't going to do. Anyways, as it stated, just get a bunch of PIII's together and you've got yourself one lean mean hacking machine! MTOPS* that is. *Millions of Theoretical Operations per Second if you read the article

By: Mack Twain

Mack Twain — Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:56:56 -0800

There is still time to bid on this Genuine CRAY J90 Supercomputer!!!! ebay: if we don't have it you don't need it.

By: hadashi

hadashi — Mon, 24 Dec 2001 23:17:21 -0800

Hmph. Ok, so this will cause problems for those who have to research linear problems; however, it does nothing for parallel-approachable problems. I'm not sure this will actually make any difference.

By: Loudmax

Loudmax — Tue, 25 Dec 2001 00:28:01 -0800

More political technophobia. US-based computer users (aka "hackers") are scary enough; the notion that foreigners might also buy high-end systems for scientific research is terrifying.

By: Fofer

Fofer — Tue, 25 Dec 2001 01:45:20 -0800

Seems like Apple is ahead of the curve once again.

By: MrBaliHai

MrBaliHai — Tue, 25 Dec 2001 08:11:34 -0800

All that I can say is that this new scheme, if implemented, will fail just as spectacularly as all of it's predecessors. Pretty much any rogue nation can make a Beowulf cluster out off-the-shelf PCs, get a third party to buy a high-end system for them, simply steal one off of the back of a truck, access a system in a non-controlled country via high-speed network, or even retro-engineer them. During the cold war, the Russians and Chinese actually produced their own version of Cray and Control Data systems simply by photocopying the boolean equations and wiring charts out of the service documentation or else by stealing copies of the die masks from chip manufacturers.

By: rschram

rschram — Tue, 25 Dec 2001 09:26:32 -0800

Hmph. Ok, so this will cause problems for those who have to research linear problems; however, it does nothing for parallel-approachable problems. The injustice of this world, oh me!

By: BarneyFifesBullet

BarneyFifesBullet — Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:39:39 -0800

...a move that would reverse a campaign pledge by President George W. Bush.. I'm used to seeing this now, not that I ever expected anything else from the Bush Gang.

By: helloboys

helloboys — Tue, 25 Dec 2001 19:41:11 -0800

I bet they're loving the people that put together Beowulf right now. It was even put together by NASA.

By: darukaru

darukaru — Fri, 04 Jan 2002 07:11:30 -0800

Looks like export controls were relaxed after all.