Things I Originally Said Elsewhere

Reuters reports that IBM will be building a 1,186 node, 2,300 AMD 64-Bit processor cluster supercomputer for the U.S. Army. The computer is expected to clock-in at 10 teraflops, and is expected to be in the top 20 of the top 500 list of supercomputers. A recent article in Slashdot spoke on the alleged crisis of the reduced use of "real" (and much more expensive) supercomputers vs. "multiprocessor matrix" (my term) clusters such as these.