Re: NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer

Neil Rieck wrote:
p.s. So do you think it's too late for someone like a presidential
science advisor to get the USA back on track? In this light it would
be nice if we could get back to the 1960's.

That is NASA's current mission as given by the current president of the USA. Retire Shuttle and build an Apollo system with the contractors that used to do Shuttle with the hopes of going to the moon in 2020.

Not sure why you would consider it "nice" to go back 40 years in technology and design.
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