News?

[Avatar4321]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040512/ap_on_hi_te/fastest_computer_2

Found this article on yahoo about and the link was titled, US to build the fastest super computer.

So im just sitting there and im like. ok so why is this news? I mean it may be cool but is it really a surpised? Who the heck else is going to build the fastest supercomputer? Aregentina? Spain? I mean come on people whats the point of this?

 

[Aquarian]

it's saying we are aiming to take the lead back from japan:

With the NEC computer in 2002, Japan became the world leader in having the most powerful computer for scientific research — one even faster than computers used at the government nuclear weapons laboratories.

 

[nycflasher]

I was going to say... Japan.
Computers, electronics... that seems to be our competition.