Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Looks like political pork to me. As I said prviously, INTC probably made a deal they couldn't refuse considering the university is in Dresden. Having their bitch SGI running the thing didn't hurt either. INTC can still afford to make a point when it wants to. No mention of the AMD processors?

Them...

"This is the third time in a row that Dresden has selected SGI as preferred HPC partner -- and it's a 128-processor SGI Origin 3800 system we actually use for running our HPC shared memory jobs," explains ZIH Director Nagel. "However, SGI was required to prevail in a tough, very challenging competition. We made our decision in favor of SGI because the company is capable of delivering a system with such a uniquely large shared-memory size. This is a distinguishing factor - enabling us to provide our clients with a unique quality of service for their novel and challenging investigations."