If they do not succeed it would crush Beowulf development in the U.S. and, like encryption, the work will move overseas. The next thing you know we'll all be importing our Beowulf software and systems. Goddard's Beowulf Web site and FTP archives are back on line. Let's hope they stay that way. I wish I could tell you that legislation is pending to fix this problem, but no.
Legislation is pending to make it worse.
This is just twice the speed of a single 300MHz Pentium II processor. After my May column on the topic, I received several inquiries about Beowulf, including one from a high school that was planning to build a cluster of its own. The World Isn't Waiting As I hope you can see, it's a pretty sorry state of affairs right now and only getting worse. The government's inability to come to grips with this situation has already put the U.S. at a disadvantage in encryption technology and it threatens to do the same with cheap supercomputers.