AMD Opteron Processor Again Dominates TOP500

[NeoGen]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. —5/31/2010 AMD (NYSE: AMD) continues to hold the reigning spot on the TOP500 Supercomputer list announced today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. Jaguar, the world’s highest performing system, is a massive, 1.75 petaflop Cray XT5™ supercomputer based on the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor and features almost a quarter of a million cores. Additional Top 10 systems based on AMD technology are:

• #3: Roadrunner, a hybrid system from IBM using AMD Opteron processors in conjunction with IBM Cell technology located at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• #4: Kraken, a Cray XT5 system at the University of Tennessee
• #7: Tianhe-1, a hybrid system using ATI Radeon™ graphics processors at the National SuperComputer Center in China

Forty-seven additional AMD systems are in the TOP500 from OEMs including Appro, ClusterVision, Dawning, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Koi Computers, Penguin Computing, and Sun.
“Our customers are selecting AMD platforms for supercomputing because they provide the cores, the memory, the power savings and clearly the performance that the world’s leading research institutions require for their ground-breaking work,” said John Fruehe, director, Server and Embedded product marketing at AMD. “AMD has been a leader in delivering the benefits of x86 and open source computing to the HPC community and it will be exciting to see what further advances the AMD Fusion™ family of Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) will bring.”


Full article here: http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases...2010may31.aspx

[Lagu]

I hawe seen these supercomputer as need a large room. All these rack cabins takes moore place than IBM:s 3033 for example and need a lot of aircooler or perhaps they are water cooled?

Why is AMD Opteron better than Intels processors? Is AMD cheaper? I know AMD is wery reliable and stable.

Lagu

[NeoGen]

Why is AMD Opteron better than Intels processors? Is AMD cheaper? I know AMD is wery reliable and stable.

AMD's also use less energy which is great for a supercomputers with 10,000 processors for example... Imagine that an Intel processor uses 91W of power and an AMD uses 90W... that 1W of difference will multiply by 10,000 resulting in quite a big difference in the electric bill every month