On 7/20/2011 10:17 AM, Bill Fairchild wrote:
I checked it out. Japan is way out in front of the rest of the pack with an 8.0 petaflop system. The only way the USA is tops is in the total number of different systems, which is 5. This is an interesting journalistic device. If you look hard enough, you can always find some way to categorize your own contestant(s) as the winner(s).
That reminds me of probably the most blatant example. Back in the seventies, the USSR and the US held a track meet, and Pravda reported that the USSR took second place, and USA was next to last!
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