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Re: [News] IBM illegally dumping supercomputers to South Africa

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:2132399.XIgevJS8E3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>A Supercomputer For Africa
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The computer giant announced Tuesday it will donate one of its 
> BlueGene/P
> | supercomputers to the Center for High Performance Computing in Cape 
> Town,
> | South Africa. The computer will be hosted by the Meraka Institute, which 
> will
> | lend it to universities and governments in need of its massive 
> processing
> | abilities. The machine, which is capable of performing 14 trillion 
> individual
> | calculations per second, is five times more powerful than the fastest
> | computer currently on the continent.
> `----
>
> http://www.forbes.com/technology/enterprisetech/2007/12/04/ibm-africa-computer-tech-cx_ag_1204techibm.html
>

Why not call it the same thing that you call it when Microsoft or Intel 
"donates" something to an African nation. - Illegal dumping.






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