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Bush Lightens Supercomputer Export Restrictions

Posted by Hemos on from the gettinghte-power-out-there dept.

MrZeebo writes "According to a story on Yahoo! News, Bush has finally decided to lift the Cold War-era restrictions on how fast an exported computer can be. Now, computers as fast as 195,000 MTOPS (up from 85,000 MTOPS) can be exported to countries such as Russia, China, and Pakistan."

2 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. Re:neat... by El+Cabri · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the US _imports_ PS2... they're made in Japan, remember ?

    Anyway it's been long that anyone can make a supercomputer with an cluster of Alphas or Itaniums.

  2. Who cares ??? by c00ldude · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    US had banned export of Supercomputers/ nuclear Tech/ Space tech to India as well. Thanks to that we developed our own supercomputers/nuclear tech/ space tech and we had one major advantage of being way cheaper thus tapping markets which could not afford the US versions anyways.