The INQ points us to this article @ Information Week, which mentions that Texas A & M might be looking to build a big PC with alot of Opterons. As many have said, this chip really must do well for AMD to continue, so lets hope many more follow suit.
"...Texas A&M University expects to have a high-performance computing cluster by the end of this month using 128 dual-processor Opteron servers running SuSE Linux that support 384 Gbytes of RAM. Texas A&M's College of Science will use the cluster to solve computational problems as well as run bioinformatics and physics apps. The university has clustered 32-bit AMD Athlon servers and wants to take advantage of the additional memory addressability that 64-bit computing provides. "At a university, price-performance is a major factor in our computing purchases," says Steven Johnson, senior systems analyst with Texas A&M's mathematics department. "The biggest benefit of Intel and AMD getting into the 64-bit market is to drive costs down."..."
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