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DARPA Awards HPC Contracts To IBM, Cray, Not Sun

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-soup-for-you dept.

snedecor writes "DARPA has awarded a third round of funding for the next-generation petascale computing system. IBM and Cray roughly split the $494M, while Sun, with little track record, received none. This is in spite of Sun's radical proposal for proximity communication."

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  1. UCAN by Stanistani · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can pet a dog, you can pet a cat, but you can't petascale.

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    1. Re:UCAN by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...you can't petascale.

      Maybe you could hug it with your nuclear arms.

    2. Re:UCAN by Korin43 · · Score: 2, Funny

      And in 10 years we'll be like, "They paid $500 million for that?? But it can't even run Halo 10!"

  2. A win for Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A win for IBM is a win for Linux. Too bad for Sun, but congrats to Linux.

  3. You forgot some by iendedi · · Score: 2, Funny
    By contrast, IBM is one of the 3 remaining American companies that still makes general-purpose, complex, and powerful cores for crunching scientific applications. The other two companies are AMD and Intel.
    You forgot Freescale, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Hewlett Packard, geesh, there are actually quite a few others...

    Once you start searching for US chip design and manufacturing firms, you realize that there are tons of them that produce silicon that is general purpose. You only listed the three biggest.
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  4. Re:Where was HP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    HP couldn't figure out how to sell printer ink for a supercomputer. Thus, they have no way of making any money on it.