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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. Where's Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seems to me Google's the company that innovated the most in (certain classes) of extremely high performance computing.

    I would have liked to see them be part of this.

    My prediction - Google buys Sun and gets a piece of this next time.

  2. Where is the WTO??? by Marcos+Eliziario · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where is the World Trade Organization? Those HPC contracts are clearly a way for the american government to subsidize american computer companies and stiffle other countries for competing with them.

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