U.S. Government Eases Export Limits on High-Performance Computing

The White House yesterday essentially threw in the towel on the government's ability to limit exports of high-performance computers, while also acknowledging that there's little the U.S. can do to prevent other nations from developing high-powered systems by harnessing computer power . . . The White House yesterday essentially threw in the towel on the government's ability to limit exports of high-performance computers, while also acknowledging that there's little the U.S. can do to prevent other nations from developing high-powered systems by harnessing computer power through networked clusters of machines.

As part of an announcement that substantially relaxes the limits placed by the U.S. on computer exports, the Clinton administration said it "has concluded that there are no meaningful or effective control measures for computer hardware that address the technological or marketplace challenges" identified during a policy review that began in the fall of 1999.

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