Supercomputers

It seems like every time somebody jams a new processor or bunch of processors in a desktop computer, they call it a supercomputer. Remember Apple's Power Mac (what was it a G3 or G4 at the time) advertising campaign? Well, these guys have now come as close as anybody, jamming up to 8 dual core Opteron processors and 64G of memory into a machine not much larger than a desktop PC. I assume the Opteron is manufactured in a 90nm process. Companies are already selling devices at 60nm, and 45nm test chips have likely taped-out somewhere. So this thing could have 64 cores in under two years. Now that is desktop power.