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Originally Posted by Fourstaff

If its Tesla, they could have chose Intel's processors, so why did they not?

General Manager for Tesla Accelerated Computing at Nvidia, why those [Opteron] CPU were chosen for this project, given the Xeon's current dominance in the HPC space. Gupta offered an interesting insight into the decision. He told us the contracts for Titan were signed between two and three years ago, and "back then, Bulldozer looked pretty darn good."

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