India Plans A Supercomputing Grid 389
An Anonymous Coward writes: "According to this article at CNET, India is building a country-wide High Speed Network. Named the "I-Grid" (I is for 'Information' silly !), its a feat for the Indians who have been bogged down by U.S. sanctions in the recent past -- besides, with a country as big as theirs, its one helluva project!"
the down side... (Score:0, Funny)
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Go for it! (Score:2, Funny)
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When reached for comment, Apple's visionary Steve Jobs stated that his engineers "would worry about the technical difficulties" associated with such a large distributed system after they "dealt with the more important stuff first, like what fluorescent color to make the transparent wires and stuff".
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Mammoth applications? (Score:2, Funny)
India's state-run agency for advanced computing plans to build a nationwide grid of supercomputers for mammoth applications.
Mammoth, as in wooly mammoth [prehistory.com]? I suppose they'll be excavating Cobol programmers to write the code for it...
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