Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 32661
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2024/11/23 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
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2004/8/3 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:32661 Activity:nil
8/3     "IBM to Build Supercomputer for U.S. Army"
        http://www.csua.org/u/8fn (Yahoo! News)
        1186 machines, ~2300 processors, runs Linux.
        \_ There's one contract for AMD Opterons, there's another contract
           for Intel Nocona (64-bit Prescott) processors.  Goddamn, the Intel
           cluster is going to burn up the building when all the CPUs hit 100%.
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