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To: mas_ who wrote (202402)	6/15/2006 9:17:23 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

mas, What is your take on this: The total contract, including systems and services, is valued at about $200 million and calls for progressive upgrades to ORNL's existing Cray XT3(TM) supercomputer. This system will be upgraded to dual-core processors later this year, accelerating peak speed from 25 teraflops (25 trillion calculations per second) to 50 teraflops. Further upgrades will increase the performance to 100 teraflops, planned in late 2006, and to 250 teraflops, planned in late 2007. I could see Socket 940 DC for 940 SC to amount to 2x, but eventual 10x increase must involve much bigger upgrade than processor swap - most likely additional units. Joe PS: Hopefully, the announcement will help my CRAYD holdings, but I am still waiting for DARPA win next month (shared with IBM)