BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Alas, initially without AMD K10 inside. Franklin supercomputer is composed of AMD dual core processors running at 2.6 GHz.
It will have 19,344 compute CPUs, each with 2 GB
of memory per CPU. Quad core K10 could easily boost its FP performance triple. To 300TFlops peak. Seems like a clever plan for world's leadership in supercomputing.
The system will deliver sustained performance of at least 16 trillion calculations per second—with a theoretical peak speed of more than 100 teraflop/s—when running a suite of diverse scientific applications at scale. The system will have over 400 terabytes of high performance, parallel disk space. Initial installation began in 2006 and the full system is scheduled to go into production service in late summer 2007.
Then, 45nm upgrade in 2008 follows. That 4 core processor will consume no more than 95W. Thus 3 times faster, but no more power hungry. That path is extremely important for every supercomputer center. Upgrade processors and memory, and don't change anything else to triple its performance.
This year is the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth. Close to 200 those cabinets would be needed in the end for its max performance configuration.