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Brief: AMD Shakes Up Top500 Supercomputer List

As with most things amd had the initial lead over intel with it’s relatively low power 64 bit processors, companies (particularly banks) tend to fund their IT over so many years, so for the near future, their grid computing farms based on blades using the amd chips will mean amd have the lead. As the two firms battle over who has the fastest/lowest power utilization per processor, intel may start making the lead. My main area of interest with the near future though remains on rumours over fixed disk (ipod style) drives for blades, that would be fantastic, from a support angle the disk is the main part that has a tendency to fail.

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