India's Bargain Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on Monday December 30, 2002 @07:31PM from the just-weather-predictions dept.

MaximusTheGreat writes "India beat U.S. supercomputer sanctions by building a teraflop $5 million PARAM Padma supercomputer, which is half the price of similar computers being sold in the international market. It can be scaled upto 16 teraflops, on a build-to-order basis For comparison, the fastest supercomputer in the U.S. is about 10 Teraflops. Some techical details and more info on CDAC , ITworld, Economic times and Asia Times. Also, India has been exporting older model PARAM 10000s to other countries like Russia, Canada, Germany etc. for some time, and expects to increase exports significantly with the new model PARAM Padma."

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Re:Supercomputer sanctions? by pVoid · 2002-12-30 20:43 · Score: 0, Troll

It's quite simple you see...
Picture yourself in a game of Civilization. And you have have this miracle project that allows you to slow down enemy units production of computers. Wouldn't you use it?
The interesting thing is that there is no 'player' governing the states. It's not even Dubya himself (he's just as much a peon as any other)... Yes, I was saying, the interesting thing is that it's everyone in america.
Including YOU!
Because in soviet russia ... hmmm... bah
this post started out with the thought of being insightful, then funny, then I realized it was time for me to go to sleep.
You draw your own conclusions, make your own jokes... whatever.