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| The Supercomputer Race is On! |
| 05.12.04 (1:03 am) [edit] |
The supercomputer development race is on in the United States who’s goal is to be Number One – apparently for scientific discovery! It’s interesting because history shows that such supercomputer development efforts end up for use in nuclear defense applications (See WorldNetDaily's 1999 article: The Super-Computer China Trail).
Cray, IBM, and Silicon Graphics, according to the Yahoo news article U.S. Aims to Regain Lead in Computer Speed, will be working at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee on what the US hopes to make them the leader with the fastest computer on the planet.
There are times when I wish as much effort and monies could be toward supercomputers to solve many of the social and medical problems in the world rather than nuclear proliferation and war planning. But as usual military advancements are the source where other benefits result when there is time to use such supercomputers for non-military applications. I also wish those with supercomputer design know-how would just work together on building supercomputers instead of competing with each other especially when it is governments trying to win contests.
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