Trade union supports PM on review of reform plan

            
        The president of the Artisans and General Workers Union (AGWU) Lall Dewnath has at a press conference on Tuesday, announced the decision of his union to fully support the Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam who had expressed his intention to re-examine the Multi Annual Adaptation Strategy (MAAS) for the sugar industry. If the new proposals of the Prime Minister within the framework of the revision of the MAAS is for a democratization of the economy, if he wishes a reform of the sugar industry which would open the way for participation and shareholding in the energy projects and ...

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NEC begins worldwide sale of supercomputer

TOKYO - NEC Corp. began worldwide sales Thursday of a supercomputer it said will challenge leaders IBM Corp. and Cray Inc.

NEC said its new SX-9 delivers peak processing performance of 839 teraflops. Each teraflop is a trillion calculations per second.

The IBM BlueGene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is now No. 1 in the latest list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers with performance measured at 280.6 teraflops.

The top 500 list is published every six months by researchers at the University of Tennessee, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Germany's University of Mannheim.

Supercomputers are used for massive calculations in areas such as space science, environmental simulations and meteorology. The SX-9 could be useful for figuring out what is happening to our planet's climate and environment, for example, NEC said.

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