> > Did anyone else see the news story about the PlayStation II?
> > Apparently the US government has classified it as "strategic
> > ordnance" because its theoretical processing power falls into the
> > "supercomputer" range!!!
> Yeah, the US gov is a little out of date on these things. Distributed
> processing essentially made their job of regulating computing power
> impossible.
If I read the article I saw on it right (somewhere on www.latimes.com), it
mentioned the limit as involving the new (to me) MTOPS, millions of
theoretical operations per second. I guess the Playstation II does 'em too
fast. The PSXII is around 1.2 MTOPS or some such...over the limit anyway.
I read somewhere that alot of companies have actually been fighting this OLD
limit for years, trying to raise it to 12 MTOPS or thereabouts.
Primenet certainly goes WAY over the limit...is the Primenet server
"enabling" foreign countries to tie together into one massively parallel
effort in violation of export laws? Oh man...I shouldn't have said that!!
BTW - Read http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/15/supercomp.idg/
Does this sound on the level? I'm skeptical of remarkable claims like
this...
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