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

[takemehomegrandma]

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?

[takemehomegrandma]

bloodline wrote:

... unless they said we need the most power you can give us for the lowest price... don't worry about heat production.  :-P

Perhaps they will connect the radiators in the building to the CPU coolers, and get the whole building heated up while playing CounterStrike in super speed?  :-o  :-)