IP: RUSSIAN TEAM CLAIMS TO HAVE PRODUCED SUPER SUPERCOMPUTER

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: GLIGOR1 () aol com
> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 14:45:32 EDT
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> RUSSIAN TEAM CLAIMS TO HAVE PRODUCED SUPER SUPERCOMPUTER. The
> vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir
> Fortov, announced on 31 July that a team of designers he is
> leading has created a domestic supercomputer with an
> extremely high capacity of instructions per second that it
> can perform as well as a speed of trillions of operations per
> second, Russian news agencies reported. Fortov complained
> that the producers of the most advanced supercomputers, the
> United States and Japan, strictly limit their exports of such
> technology to Russia. However, this new Russian supercomputer
> exceeds the processing speed of the technology banned for
> export to Russia by 50-100 times -- and in Fortov's words --
> gives Russia a hi-tech edge in the process of globalization.
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> Source: RFE/RL Newsline, 1 Aug 01



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