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Story: Mac cluster rises in supercomputing ranks

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"Intel's Itanium 2 was too slow, while AMD's Opteron was too expensive, Varadarajan said." Well, he did not.He made some sweeping statement mixing Itanium 2 and Opteron and adjectives "slow" and "expensive" in one sentence without spelling which is which. It's really hard to make sense of why Opteron was not used. Most likely, it's availability issues and not speed or price. I only wish Varadarajan explained himself more clearly.

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