World's Fastest Supercomputers Employ AMD Opteron Processors
3 of the Top 5 systems and 7 of the Top 20 systems depend on AMD innovation
18 June 2008 Source: www.amd.com
At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD have 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."
"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."