AMD Barks in the Comments Section

[Nflight]

Now this first link is a link to my Daily Tech site. IT is about the replacement of the large computer at ORNL in Tennessee. The tell you about the new development of enlarging the computers power, great but. The comments in the lower section point out the real facts is that the computer is powered by AMD processors and shows that AMD Processors overwhelm the power of the Intel processors hands down. The argument is well worth the read.

http://www.dailytech.com/Oak+Ridge+N...ticle11807.htm

You will want to read over the comments as they approach the name of the ORNL computer with details the writer of the article missed. Very Explicit in detail, and shows that AMD really is on TOP way ahead of Intel.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.asp...d=385#comments

This link above is where the real conversation begins::::

[liuqyn]

thats sounds like the new system I've been building in my spare time. should be online by the turn of the century.

[mitchellds]

jeesh, all of that, and I cant even find one decent OC'able MB to put a pair of phenoms on.

[Steve Lux]

From the Daily Tech Nov 2006 article:

"Cray XT4 supercomputers configured with dual-core Opterons are available now. Furthermore, Cray says that current XT4 systems will be upgradable to AMD's quad-core processing technology when available."

Looks to me that by doubling their capacity they simply took out the dual core Opty's and installed quad cores. Hm... I wonder if there are about 30,000 used dual Opty's we can get for cheap?

[Lagu]

What happen if 1 of 31.000 cores got a failure. Will the whole process fail as use it?

But we as have AMD´s know they are stable.

Lars-Gunnar

[Danish Dynamite]

i would guess just that node would fail