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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.'"
$2,306,700 and that is if they order their SCO liscenses before mid-October. I wonder whether the state of Utah won't suffer an un-accounted for nuclear accident in close vicinity to SCO's offices.
It will be interesting to see what they try next.
Maybe claim that since they created the x86 platform, the Opteron contains their IP and any Opteron users owe them $750/CPU in licensing.
Jason
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That they were to pony up millions of $$$ for free software, Los Alamos has decided to change the mission.
The new object of the project is precise targeting of the
Manhatten Project II on SCO HQ so as to cause as little collateral damage to Utah residents.
Remember, when you hear the siren, duck and cover.
*/waves buh bye to SCO/*
"Doesn't the 32 bit compatibility need a reboot to use, then another reboot back to 64?"
Only if you are running Windows...
What people don't realize is that while the Pentiums they used before might not have been as quick, they were nevertheless a better buy because they served a dual purpose of, besides computing, producing enough heat to trigger small fusion reactions simply by placing certain radioactive isotopes close to the computer
This doubling of utility made the Pentiums far superior, i think, to the AMDs for Los Alamos' use, but i guess some suit at a desk ignorant of the technical issues just wasn't aware of that
Your tax dollars at work i suppose
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Wen Ho Lee had been fired from the lab and lost his access to secure areas before the hard drive incident, so it's not too surprising that he was found not at fault for that. He is also not at fault for the Cerro Grande fire that sent us scurrying from town in the dark of night, nor is he currently thought to be a suspect in the local Blockbuster Video's inability to keep an unscratched DVD of "Shanghai Knights" in stock.
Sheesh.
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"in two of its Linux clusters"
:)
"making it the largest Opteron system"
Two is also greater than one.
Have you ever had to design a Windows-based network from scratch? Have you ever had your boss come to you and tell you you have $100K to spend? I have.
No, it's not Sun. That's why I said in my original post that Intel is the only gig in town for x86, not for all servers. But, guess what? Not everyone wants a Sun solution. Tell me how you're going to build an IIS server farm on Sun machinery. I'd love to hear your solution.
Go price out an eight-way Dell 8450 server. Then tell me about low-end.
I think the problem ther is that your going to use IIS....
$2,306,700 and that is if they order their SCO liscenses before mid-October. I wonder whether the state of Utah won't suffer an un-accounted for nuclear accident in close vicinity to SCO's offices.
/. might have mentioned that "some mormon commitee is full of hot air and it" instead of all this "trying to sue the world"/"take over computer industry"/"overthrow GPL" crap...
SCO hq in Utah ? I didn't know that, and I'm guessing if more people had known this from the start I may have never even heard of SCO.
1 Earth is warming, 2 It's us, 3 it's royally bad, 4 we need to take action NOW
The age of WinTel ends, and the age of LinAMD begins
As a taxpayer, I demand that any spare computing power on government hardware be put to use for dedicated game server time.
It's worth the security risk.
My vote is for Halflife 2.