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Intel wins 4000 Itanium 2 chip deal
THE CLUSTER WARS were renewed today as Intel said it has won a deal with the Lawrence Livermore National Labs
which will start deploying a 4000 strong Itanium 2 system this coming January.
This is codenamed Thunder, and will clock over 20 teraFLOPs, and use the Linux operating system in a clustered arrangement.
At the same time, Intel claimed that 38 per cent of the Top 500 high performance computers used its chips, toppling the RISC platform.
There are 189 systems in the top 500 that use either Itanium or Xeon 32 systems, claimed Intel.
Meanwhile, Intel also said that it would spend an extra $36 million of engineering and other resources in future designs.
Michael Fister, general manager of Intel's enterprise group, could hardly contain himself. He said: "We are ecstatic about the acceptance of Intel's standards based approach to meet the needs of the most demanding applications in the world".
Someone give that man a tranquiliser. ยต
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