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Los Alamos to Use AMD's Opteron in Linux Clusters

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the building-the-big-iron dept.

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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  1. Re:The key by Jason1729 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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