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India's Bargain Supercomputer

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Is this a consiracy? by xombo · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does it seem like every IT person in America is loosing their jobs to people in india now? It is bad enough everyone in Mexico is stealing our work, now India. I think they need to put Tarrifs on all incoming code to America or somthing, I know it sounds bad, we lost our jobs because of stuff like NAFTA, now it is happening with IT too. I also hear of companies paying for scholarships by using students code in their programs. We are letting people take advantage of us, the GNU/GPL are making us more vulerable to stolen code, how can we profit if people are stealing our work out from under out feet?

  2. $2 sand niggahs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck all the $2 sand niggahs, we just don't want stinking fucken indians in our country! Indias are the center fo the axis of evil, those black niggahs, kill em all!

  3. Re:Supercomputer sanctions? by pVoid · · 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.