IBM... to Power or Not to Power, Opteron is the question.

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How odd... IBM has chosen the Opteron for it's new Super Computer project, even though the original plans were for a Power based one! :-?

Any thoughts?



Linq' IBM Like Opertons better

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takemehomegrandma wrote:

bloodline wrote:

Any thoughts?

Yes ;-): Perhaps it's not IBM who likes Opterons better, perhaps it's the "Japanese Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology", the "customer" for this super computer?

Hadn't thought of that... but I wouldn't have thought that the "customer" would have had much input... unless they said we need the most power you can give us for the lowest price... don't worry about heat production.  :-P

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AmigaMac wrote:
IBM is so 'BIG BLUE' that they really compete with themselves.

It's kinda funny.  Yesterday I went to a computer repair shop to buy some old RAM and I got in a conversation with the shop owner about Mac stuff (he had an old B&W G3 Power Mac sitting there) and he was talking about Apple not being 'IBM' compatible, and I had to think about it for a second before responding because I was thinking of 'PowerPC' and he was thinking of 'PC'!

HAHAAHAHA, that's funny :-) PPC not IBM compatible :lol:

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dammy wrote:
by bloodline on 2003/7/31 7:15:02

adn't thought of that... but I wouldn't have thought that the "customer" would have had much input... unless they said we need the most power you can give us for the lowest price... don't worry about heat production.

If they wanted to heat the building, they would have gone with the Power4 chips.  };->

Dammy

Yeah, but I said "At the lowest price"  :-P

:-D Peace

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jamesm wrote:
Hypertransport on PowerPC didn't come solely from IBM and Apple. Likewise, the Opteron didn't get a phenomenal FPU from AMD advances - that comes almost straight from the PowerPC. (But Mr. Lawyer, not *that* straight :>)

Hmmm, The Athlon's FPU performance comes from the ex-Alpha design team that AMD hired when Compaq closed the section down...

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dammy wrote:
by jamesm on 2003/8/1 8:00:04

Maybe one day, we'll see a native non-PowerPC based AmigaOS?

No need to wait, go try out AROS. =)

Dammy

Linq

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