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Similarly the prosthetic mind controlled arm took 100 million dollars to develop:

http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/11/coming-soon-the-100-mi...

Meg Whitman could have either had a sweet robotic arm or a super computer for the cost of a failed political campaign.

I remember her cost per vote acquired was something like 8$?

That kind of spending has an anti-democratic vibe to it.

I doubt it will be anywhere near an exaflop, unless you do some creative rounding. Closer to .01 exaflops.

NCSA's Blue Waters is $208m and 10 petaflops, its scheduled to go online by June 30 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Waters

Any idea how IP laws work under these contracts? Does IBM have the same patent rights that they would if they had developed the computer on their own?