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."

Comments

Re:Put on your tinfoil hats...

[Silverstrike]

This is something I have never understood. What makes you think they care what you do in your day to day life? And if they did have this apparently top-secret information, what horrible and nefarious purpose do you suppose they'll use it for?

Now, its true that in history that the more privacy a government gives its people is often indicative of the quality of life those citizens enjoy. However, that does not imply that the act of collecting information causes the decline in QoL. I'd argue that the inherant distrust in a government that does invasive monitoriing, such as some of the old Soviet regimes, is the problem; the spying is a symptom.

Personally, if they want to know what I ate for dinner for the past week, they're more than welcome to know.

Furthermore, information about my day-to-day life certainly won't empower such people to lock me away in a gulag in the middle of nowhere to rot and die -- they don't need to know what Ihad for dinner to do that. All they need is the power to actually whisk me away in such a manner (just a car and one or two big guys, really) And this power will come seperate from the ability to know what, precisely, it is Ihad for dinner the night before.

Oh, and as an aside, the esteemed minds at MIT have pointed out recently -- that tinfoil hat of yours will only help them discover the content of your dinner plate the previous evening ;-)

Re:Put on your tinfoil hats...

[Mister Yoan]

So privacy isn't a right, it's a privilege?

Re:Had to be done

[Anonymous Coward]

O RLY?

Re:Shall we play a game?

[Agarax]

Our monkey was smart enough to beat your Easter Island statue with a power tie.

Re:excellent

[GuidoW]

Saying "I can provide real and reliable sources" without actually doing so is just as dodgy, maybe even more so, than not talking about reliable sources at all.