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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. 32 bit swapping to 64bit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Doesn't the 32 bit compatibility need a reboot to use, then another reboot back to 64? I've been reading a thread about Opterons on spymac where someone insisted this was the case.

    Anyone know for sure either way?