From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Jan 15 1999 - 14:47:12 MST
Michael M. Butler writes:
> Well, for one thing, it means the PRC/PLA can do more advanced simulations
> than they used to be able to. Nuke weapons, vehicular hull and propulsion,
But do they have the codes to exploit it? Dire TFlop'ses are cheap: Alpha
Beowulves, or DSP clusters are easy enough to build, but writing the
codes to exploit it is another story. (As India), China has sure got
the manpower potential, if proper mechanisms to skim off the geniuses
are in place. Somehow, I doubt it.
'gene
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