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TechWeb: IBM Sells Opteron-Based Supercomputer To Drug Giant

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 16, 2004

[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]

“IBM on Wednesday announced it had sold a supercomputer based on
Advanced Micro Devices’ 64-bit processors to pharmaceutical giant
Bristol-Meyers Squib, giving a boost to AMD’s Opteron
technology.

“The supercomputer, a cluster of 64 IBM eServer 325 machines
running Linux, each packing a pair of Opteron processors, will be
used by Bristol-Meyer for drug and healthcare treatment research,
said the two companies…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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