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AMD's next architecture will enable Petaflops machines by 2009/10!
If K8L could hit 250TFlops in Cray machines, why not? Amd's next generation Torrenza architecture benefits , gives Cascade future supercomputer computing power over 1 Petaflops. But, hybrid computing is actually what have to excel petaflops systems . By the way, is just that what AMD announces in its next generation processor?

Of course, I don't support Cray's official claim on processors choice Start with best-of-class microprocessor: AMD Opteron, until the claim is proved in many ways. But, ignorants would say: probably Cray has some intristical performance reasons for such a claims.What to say in the end? Lets wait and see. Perhaps the first Petaflops COTS supercomputer system might be someone's else processor based. And what is AMD's official response on Cray's claims?
Known for those under NDA.

Jan Silverman, senior vice president of corporate strategy and business development at Cray, plans to use the Torrenza socket to build a petaflop supercomputer with 24,000 Opteron sockets that will take a custom multithreaded processor, dropping the price per socket from about $127,000 to $10,000 per socket.

Eldorado is a scalable, shared memory, multithreaded computer that uses parallelism to hide memory latencies and full-and-empty bits to support very fine-grain synchronization. The system has no local memory and no processor caches. Each processor supports up to 128 instruction streams feeding a single instruction pipeline.
It combines the Cray/Tera multi-threaded architecture (MTA) processors with the Red Storm network. This new design combines the excellent performance of the MTA on linked structures with the scalability and economy of Red Storm. Nevertheless, the mission is clear. Cross the one petaflop barrier by the end of this decade.
But, IBM might do it with Torrenza + Cell even in 2008 ! Obviously, Torrenza is promising solution for the hybrid architectures of the future.