Sun ships 52,000 Opteron cores to Texas

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Register has the good news. Sun has won a deal to supply the University of Texas with a huge system : "The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) at UT will put a $59m grant from the National Science Foundation toward the supercomputer. The school hopes to have a base version of the computer humming away by June 1 and a final version running by October 2007. All told, the finished product will have a whopping 13,000 four-core Opteron processors from AMD, 100TB of memory and 1.7PB of disk". More here