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Cray financial problems.

Agreed Cray has financial problems, but there don't appear to be any problems with the Opterons. From the tone of the article it sounds like Red Storm could eventually scale to its' intended 10,000 processors, if the company lasts long enough. I wonder how the other installations of the XT3 systems are going? As I remember it none of the other installations use as many processors as Oak Ridge? Since Cray has already proven it can link 5200 Opterons that may be enough for the other contracts and the smaller XD1s should be doing Ok? Anyway, there does seem to be a lot of demand for Cray processors, the company just needs to get its' costs in line with revenue. Sounds like AMD a couple of years ago doesn't it?

Given the performance listed in the article it sounds like they shouldn't have any problems selling more of the systems with up to the proven number of OPterons. Even at the number of processors already being used the systems seem very capable of solving the mega problems they're being directed at.

On another tack, Red Storm is undoubtedly providing a lot of information that will be useful to Cray in future designs, should they last long enough. I wonder if AMD would be willing to take a stake in Cray if things got to that point?

Anyway, how do the specs listed compare to the largest Itanium designs? Does INTC have anything like Red Storm up an running or on the boards?