World’s Fastest Supercomputers Employ AMD
Opteron™ Processors to Reach Unprecedented
Performance
3 of the Top 5 Systems and 7 of the Top 20 Systems Depend on AMD
Innovation
Top 20 Showing for AMD Opteron Processors Outpaces any other x86
Processor Architecture by Almost 2:1
DRESDEN, Germany (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) June 17, 2008 --
At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD (NYSE:AMD) today
announced that its AMD Opteron™ processors
have helped deliver many of the top performing supercomputers in the
world. For the first time ever, AMD technology plays a role in the
number one supercomputer in the world and this same processor technology
that helps drive the number one supercomputer is also readily available
for business and personal computing.
“This current TOP500 list, with its first ever
petascale performance, not only represents a milestone in scientific
computing but also demonstrates the relevance of scalability and
balanced system design in high performance computing (HPC). It also
points to heterogeneous computing as an emerging and necessary step for
the industry,” said Randy Allen, senior vice
president, Computation Solutions Group, AMD. “AMD
and its many supercomputing partners, including top tier OEMs, recognize
that for heterogeneous computing to be successful, collaboration among
industry leaders is critical. The performance demonstrated on this list
by AMD and our partners exceeds what any single solution has ever been
able to achieve and we believe this tightly coupled innovation will
become more prevalent to the benefit of HPC, as well as business and
personal computing customers.”
Beyond helping drive the number one system to its record-breaking
petascale performance, six additional multi-core AMD Opteron
processor-based supercomputers ranked in the balance of the top 20,
including the much-anticipated “Ranger”
system from Sun Microsystems at the Texas Advanced Computing Center
(TACC) and several of Cray’s well-known HPC
installations. In total, 11 of AMD’s OEM
customers have achieved a TOP500 ranking based on AMD’s
Direct Connect Architecture in 11 countries worldwide.
The AMD Opteron processor-based “Ranger”
supercomputer at TACC made its first appearance on the TOP500 list,
ranking fourth with a score of 326 teraflops. “Ranger”
is based on Sun Microsystems’ Constellation
blade system and is the most powerful supercomputing system in the world
for open science research, helping solve massive computational problems
from weather prediction and climate modeling to genetics and medical
research.
“The Sun Constellation System at TACC
delivers an open, petascale-capable architecture through cost-effective,
off-the-shelf components and state-of-the-art technologies,”
said Bjorn Andersson, director, HPC Marketing, Sun Microsystems. “Through
the combination of Sun’s innovative design
principles for server, switch and interconnect technology and the
performance and energy-efficiency of multi-core AMD Opteron processors,
Ranger is helping to achieve breakthrough discoveries across domains and
disciplines and is poised to grow with the demands of open science
research.”
AMD Opteron processor-based Cray supercomputers continue their long
tradition of achieving high TOP500 rankings. Currently, 15
supercomputers based on the collaboration between Cray and AMD are
delivering supercomputing customers with world-class computational
power. This represents the 7th straight time that AMD Opteron
processor-based Cray systems have been ranked in the top 10 on the
TOP500 list and underscores the level of system design, innovation, and
scalability that Cray and AMD together deliver.
“IDC forecasts that the market for high
performance computing systems will continue growing rapidly and will
reach $18 billion in 2012. Large-scale HPC systems enable major
scientific and engineering breakthroughs and are at the forefront of
issues that later affect enterprise and even desktop computing
environments, such as parallel processing and power consumption,”
said Steve Conway, IDC research vice president, HPC. “The
AMD Opteron processor and AMD's Direct Connect Architecture continue to
play an important part in moving HPC capabilities forward across the
globe.”
The Top 500 list and related documentation is scheduled to be released
publicly on June 18, 2008 and will be accessible online at www.top500.org.
About AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) is a leading global provider of
innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer
electronics markets. AMD is dedicated to driving open innovation, choice
and industry growth by delivering superior customer-centric solutions
that empower consumers and businesses worldwide. For more information,
visit http://www.amd.com.
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron and combinations thereof, are
trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for
informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
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