What makes you say that Opteron ever had Sun's "undivided attention"? I would say that is too strong of a statement. But how exactly are you defining "high end computing"? Does that exclude HPC clustering? And also 8 way Opteron systems? Isn't it known that Sun is in a partnership with Serverworks to develop 8 and 16 way chipsets for the Opteron? With dual core parts, the 16-way might even become 32-way.
I would add that beyond that I believe that Sun should consider acquiring Cray to get ahold of their Opteron technology, but of course, this is not something that is happening, merely my opinion.
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