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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."

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  1. How many TOPS do you have? by headwick · · Score: 5, Informative

    2100 MTOPS is a 900MHz P3. 5333 MTOPS is a 2GHz P4 . Here is a nice reference from Intel.

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