AMD announced during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany that its AMD Opteron™ processors have helped deliver many of the top performing supercomputers in the world. 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.
AMD said that:
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.”
Intel will be crazy to hear this. We have a factory in Penang for AMD, but the number of employees dropped from 4k to nearly 2k. I tot they are not doing well as Intel.
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