{"id":481,"date":"2006-11-24T14:48:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T09:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/11\/24\/ibm-bags-pentagons-computer-contract\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T09:18:23","slug":"ibm-bags-pentagons-computer-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/11\/24\/ibm-bags-pentagons-computer-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM bags Pentagon&#8217;s computer contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Pentagon <\/strong>awarded almost <strong>$500 million<\/strong> in contracts to <strong>IBM<\/strong> and <strong>Cray <\/strong>on Tuesday to design a <strong>supercomputer <\/strong>several times as fast as today&#8217;s most powerful systems. <\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Cray contract is for $250 million<\/strong> and the IBM contract is for <strong>$244 million, <\/strong>to be spent during the next four years. They <strong>prevailed <\/strong>over <strong>Sun <\/strong>Microsystems. The contracts are part of the High Productivity Computing Systems program being led by the Pentagon&#8217;s research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or <strong>Darpa<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Read More @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/report.asp?NewsID=1065765\">DNA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon awarded almost $500 million in contracts to IBM and Cray on Tuesday to design a supercomputer several times as fast as today&#8217;s most powerful systems. The Cray contract is for $250 million and the IBM contract is for $244 million, to be spent during the next four years. They prevailed over Sun Microsystems. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-tcs-competitor-it-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}