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100 Teraflop Cray to Use Opterons

ackthpt writes "Code named Red Storm, Cray and Sandia National Laboratories (US Dept. of Energy) to build a 100 Teraflop super computer employing AMD's Opteron (Hammer) processors. Alluded to in the WSJ (non-free-as-in-beer subscription required), also in Infoworld, and Reuters."

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  1. Captain Opteron by JPelorat · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's something comic-bookish about that name... maybe it's just cos it sounds like a Transformer.

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    1. Re:Captain Opteron by merz · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Amdbots vs. The Intelicons. I like it.

  2. Cool.. but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if it will be as fast as the computer William Shatner and Priceline.com use?

  3. Just imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...building a supercomputer as a cluster of commodity off-the-shelf personal computers, interconnected with a local area network technology like Ethernet, and running programs written for parallel processing out of those!

    1. Re:Just imagine... by slyfox · · Score: 5, Funny

      Seymour Cray said it best: "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?"

  4. Buy a case... by scrod98 · · Score: 5, Funny

    and come over to my house, and I will demonstrate.

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  5. gotta move now by imsirovic5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope they are not putting that supercomputer anywhere near Antarctica.. 16,000 Athlons can get pretty hot resulting in some serious polar melting forcing me to evacuate from New Orleans (we are already underwater).