Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory selects Intel Itanium 2 processors for world's most powerful Linux cluster; Intel Itanium 2 processor enables largest supercomputer in United States to be designed, built and fully operational in only five months.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-17 November 2003-INTEL: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory selects Intel Itanium 2 processors for world's most powerful Linux cluster; Intel Itanium 2 processor enables largest supercomputer in United States to be designed, built and fully operational in only five months(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11162003 SANTA CLARA and LIVERMORE, Calif.

-- Intel Corporation, system manufacturer California Digital and the University of California at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced they are building one of the world's most powerful supercomputers. The supercomputer project, codenamed "Thunder," uses nearly 4,000 Intel Itanium 2 processors. Thunder is expected to be complete in January. "By utilizing the high...