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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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  2. 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.