JAPAN SETS 'SUPER' SITES.
The article discusses the plans of Japan to build a supercomputer. The sting of losing the top spot as makers of the world's fastest supercomputer to International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) in 2004 has not deterred Japan from making plans to gain that position again. Japan, in fact, plans to sta...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 10; p. 10 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Oct2005
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