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Techweb > News > Intel To Help Build National Computing Grid In China > Intel To Help Build National Computing Grid In China > September 26, 2003: "Intel To Help Build National Computing Grid In China
September 26, 2003 (11:52 a.m. EST)
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Intel and Advanced Micro Devices will be raising their ongoing battle a few more notches in the Far East--this time in China. Intel has announced that it has joined with China's Ministry of Education (MOE) to create a national computing grid. Previously AMD had teamed with China's major universities to build powerful computers."
Something about this whole project makes me itchy. Given the history of the Chinese government, this seems like an excellent time to query their motives and aims. Not the technical ones, but the political motives and especially their aims. Then we should ask ourselves about what they want to use a high-speed national network for. All in all, caution would seem to be indicated. We take a dimmer view, apparently, of allowing people to export drive defraggers to Europe than we do of supplying the last 'Communist' government on Earth (of any import) with a totally modern high-speed data network.
September 26, 2003 (11:52 a.m. EST)
TechWeb News
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices will be raising their ongoing battle a few more notches in the Far East--this time in China. Intel has announced that it has joined with China's Ministry of Education (MOE) to create a national computing grid. Previously AMD had teamed with China's major universities to build powerful computers."
Something about this whole project makes me itchy. Given the history of the Chinese government, this seems like an excellent time to query their motives and aims. Not the technical ones, but the political motives and especially their aims. Then we should ask ourselves about what they want to use a high-speed national network for. All in all, caution would seem to be indicated. We take a dimmer view, apparently, of allowing people to export drive defraggers to Europe than we do of supplying the last 'Communist' government on Earth (of any import) with a totally modern high-speed data network.
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