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Cray Supercomputers to be Based on AMD Opterons
PsychicX writes "AMD and Cray have announced an agreement to base Cray supercomputers on AMD's Opteron line until the end of the decade, and to collaborate on Cray's 2006 proposal for Phase 3 of the federal government's DARPA HPCS (High Productivity Computing Systems) program. Cray already offers the XT3 and XD1 supercomputers based on Opteron."
From the press release...Sooooo... if I scrape together a few million bucks and buy a computer from these guys, will I still be able to contact my Cray rep once his 500 FREE TRY AOL NOW HOURS have expired?
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This is really just a marketing play on AMD's part. Now they can sell you:
"The SAME CPU used in CRAY ***SUPERCOMPUTERS***, now available for your desktop!"
And some rube will buy one based on that statement.
A well-scrubbed, hustling rube with some taste?
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Hey, maybe the motherboards are nForces too. I bet all the new Crays will have digital 5.1 sound, an important feature for today's supercomputers.
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A Computer capable of running Duke Nukem Forever....oh wait...
Finally! Something that can run Windows Vista at a descent speed... :-P
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That prices on the older Clay computers will drop? Holy flipflops! Now I'll have something to put into my empty warehouse building. :P
Go Intel! Milk that RISC design for all it's worth, too bad you ripped the idea off from ARM and stuck three metric tons of x86 mentally-backwards-compatibility cruft on it. It'd be nice if you start innovating one of these days, instead of ripping off things like AMD's invention, x86-64.
That's just the technical side. I don't need to go in much detail about how Intel fucked up its marketing by pushing MHz (maybe because they were bitter that AMD had 1GHz first?)
I was just about to buy 40 sun machines, based on AMD. Maybe I should wait for Cray to come out with their product? Anyone knows the estimated retail price that machine is expected to hit the market with? ;)
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I wonder what the governmnet will do with these cheaper, powerful supercomputers?
Why, decrypt your 66,000ft high stack of SSH traffic in case you're a would-be terrorist, of course! :-)
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To be fair, AMD is proud of helping spy on it's citizens more efficiently and we can all be proud of increased productivity. If that wasn't funny maybe it was insightful?
Just kidding!
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I think there will be very hot :D
One of my colleagues has just bought a small 24-core Opteron system
Small? Small? You've lost your sense of scale with all the weather modeling and nuclear RSA NP-hard protein folding simulations you've been running.