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Economic stimulus money helped upgrade what is now the world's fastest supercomputer. -- (link)

Posted by mara Nov 18 '09, 09:38

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Open for use by research institutes, a lot of time on it has been booked for climate and energy modeling and info processing. (www.inhabitat.com)

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*laughs* -- nm - Batman Nov 18, 09:41
WTF, isn't stimulus spending supposed to INCREASE jobs? That upgrade will put 100 people with slide rules out of a job! -- nm - Ender Nov 18, 09:40 1
- a lot of the calculations done to get Apollo 13 back to Earth were done on slide rules. Also, not of of that work was done at NASA (some was at UofTor - z6rk Nov 18, 09:44

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