Word: teraflops
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...being moved almost stealthily through the federal bureaucracy have suddenly been brought front and center, with Bush himself acting as emcee. Last week the President signed the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, which authorizes eight federal agencies to spend $638 million to develop hardware and software for a teraflop computer capable of performing 1 trillion computations a second. The same day, Energy Secretary James Watkins announced that the government's 726 national laboratories -- facilities that spend more than $20 billion annually, mostly on weapons research -- will now be available for joint research projects with private businesses. "U.S. taxpayers made...
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