The only reason that there is such a large population of supercomputers in Japanese universities is that the local manufacturers sell them to educational establishments at an enormous discount – Japanese computer companies in particular seeing a sale to a university in long-range terms, as a training ground for future researchers and employees, just as IBM does but Cray Research also charges that discount sales would be impossible without subsidies from the Japanese government chairman and chief executive John Rollwagen, in Tokyo to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Cray’s subsidiary in Japan, charged that Japanese supercomputer makers use the system of academic discounts to keep out foreign suppliers, saying that Cray did not consider that the academic market was open, and he suspected that the practice of offering low prices to public laboratories and universities was in exchange for research grants from the government; this one will run and run.
