Originally Posted by Wren
Many years ago, Morgan Stanley was looking at super computer power and I was working with them when they thought about using Cray. It was soon after that Cray got bought and left MN. Interesting story on Cray. There were many different solutions being introduced to super computing and continues to this day. There is a conference on these issues every year out west and the biggest names in CIOs that attend are the ones that sounded the alarm to me. It was one of these that heads up the IT at one of the biggest global manufacturing firms in the world, yes US, that said the US is losing. But perhaps you know better. I admit to heresay, I am not longer in the midst of it.

"Losing" what exactly?

The race to...uh...computational utopia?