Replies to post #18839 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chr p]

chipguy,
"he knows SGI will survive and prosper from the Altix line and subsequent IPF based products."

By this time next year Cray will be emphasizing on their newest "Red Storm" based MPPs and when these come SGI will hardly prosper undisturbed.


CRAY INC. TO OFFER MPP PRODUCT BASED ON 'RED STORM' SUPERCOMPUTER

Due Out In 2004, Product Targets Need for Higher Bandwidth, More Cost-Effective Microprocessor-based Linux Systems

SEATTLE (October 27, 2003) - Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq NM: CRAY) today announced plans to create a product line based on the "Red Storm" 40-TeraOp (40 trillion calculations per second) supercomputer it is developing for Sandia National Laboratories.

http://www.cray.com/media/2003/october/rsproduct.html

I've bookmarked your bold prediction for TOP500 list next year. Feel free to revise it down anytime you want.:)

regards,
chr

[I_banker]

Chipguy, you need to stop with the outrageous claims.

and this time next year there will probably be 10 Altix
3000s on the TOP500 list for every Opteron based system
or cluster.

This is the second claim I am going to hold you to, mostly because its so absurd. This time next year, you can try and prove your point on either a TFLOP basis or a numerical basis.