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[chipguy]

If Barcelona is such a flop why are customers making teraflop supercomputers out of it with clock speeds well below what they can get from Intel ?

Opteron's strongest market has always been HPC given the
low pricing of its 2xxx SKUs and good memory performance.
Initial sales of Barc into HPC is a dog bites man story.

The real question is how can AMD keep whatever toeholds it
has managed to gain in non-HPC server segments with K8
given the Barc's lower clock rate than K8 and limited set of
non-FP improvements.