64-bit cluster computing

[alanc]

The Athlon64 desktop processor is theoretically capable of gigaFLOPS speed when operating at its highest level of floating-point precision. When fully deployed in 2004, the TeraGrid is expected to be capable of 20 teraFLOPS, or 20 trillion FLOPS.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1435185,00.asp

As Keanu Reeves would say... whoa!

[mr_flea]

This breakthrough is used to good advantage at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications' (NCSA) TeraGrid, which allocates 12GB of system memory each to half of its 256 Itanium 2 processor nodes. It will be a while before anyone knows how fast Quake would run with that much memory, since PC motherboards don't exceed 8GB of RAM.
:D They know us...