[geeks] Super 500

[Phil Stracchino]

Just FYI:  CNET reported this morning that AMD Opteron processors now
run 81 of the world's top 500 supercomputers, up from 55 in November and
25 this time last year.  Intel, meanwhile, has slipped to 301 (including
118 running 64-bit Xeons), down from 333 in November.  Most of those
losses are Itanium systems, currently 37, down from 45 in November and
79 a year ago.

IBM continues to hold the top three places, with one more in the top
ten, and has more systems on the list than any other vendor (243).  SGI,
Dell and Cray each have a machine in the top ten.  (SGI and Cray, of
course, don't surprise me.  Dell did, at first, until it occurred to me
that it's doubtless simply a huge cluster of commodity boxen.)



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