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Title

Executive briefing : an examination of high-performance computing export control policy in the 1990s / Seymour Goodman, Peter Wolcott, Grey Burkhart.

Author

Goodman, Seymour E.

Publication

Los Alamitos, Calif. : IEEE Computer Society Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Description

xvi, 114 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• Reports on the results of a recent study of the U.S.-Japanese special export control regime for high-performance computers. This briefing reviews the history and purpose of this regime and establishes a framework for analysis. This framework can be used to test the basic premises on which the control regime rests and to suggest viable control thresholds.
• The briefing reviews the necessity of high-performance computers in U.S. government national security applications. It suggests the levels of export control that are possible for such systems, and discusses the desirability and feasibility of maintaining such controls. It also identifies the near- and intermediate-term problems that may erode the viability of the basic premises underlying high-performance computer export controls.

Subject

• Federal High Performance Computing Program (U.S.)
• High performance computing > United States
• Export controls > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Ch. 1. Origin and Purpose of High-Performance Computing Export Controls -- Ch. 2. Building on Basic Premises -- Ch. 3. Establishing a Lower Bound -- Ch. 4. National Security Applications for High-Performance Computing -- Ch. 5. Applying the Analytical Framework: Results and Policy Implications -- Ch. 6. Looking to the Future: Trends and Issues -- Appendix A. Glossary of Acronyms -- Appendix B. Facilities Visited and People Interviewed.

ISBN

0818674598

LCCN

96020298

OCLC

• 34658808
• ocm34658808

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Columbia University Libraries