Fastest U.S. Super Computer Honors go NOT to IBM, Intel, but to...

mbigna · Oct 22, 2002

AMD

That's right. Sandia Labs (US Gov't. Weapons Lab) has contracted with Cray to use AMD's Opteron chips in the U.S.'s fastest supercomputer cluster:

http://computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,75300,00.html

reidroach · Oct 22, 2002

bad ***, i want one!

Rottys-R-Us · Oct 22, 2002

AMD rockzzz, what can I say

Heat · Oct 22, 2002

This is shocking!

*spazzed* · Oct 22, 2002

sweeeeeeeeeet

can never have enough speed tho

Ebola · Oct 22, 2002

I hope it doesnt overheat. hehe.

funnyperson1 · Oct 22, 2002

now NAS...get away from the Red Storm...theres no F@H client for it yet

Captain Slug · Oct 23, 2002

funnyperson1 said:
now NAS...get away from the Red Storm...theres no F@H client for it yet

Hehehehehe.
How much you wanna bet it's going to be cooled with Flourinert? Cray-II left behind 300 gallons of it.

hooziewhatsit · Oct 23, 2002

it's about time they wisened up...

Ghost68 · Oct 24, 2002

Ill take 2 and why not throw in a few Dell Clusters while your at it hehe

Ottoman · Oct 24, 2002

Intel declined to comment directly on the Sandia announcement.

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