Los Alamos to Use AMD's Opteron in Linux Clusters

nuke-alwin writes "eWeek is reporting that Los Alamos National Laboratory announced it will use more than 3,300 Opteron chips in two of its Linux clusters. According to the article 'The key to Opteron, as it tries to gain traction not only against Intel Corp.'s 64-bit Itanium chip but also its 32-bit Xeon offerings, is its ability to run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications equally well.'"

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Re:The key

[gfody]

RDBMS.. tell hitler I said hi :)

Re:The key

[Alien Being]

"But Intel has something in the server market that AMD doesn't: a reputation."

At Intel, Quality is Job 0.99999998!!

Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
A: A random number generator.

Re:The key

[sharkey]

But Intel has something in the server market that AMD doesn't: a reputation.

Yep. In the x86 server market, Intel is number 1.9786635821.