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Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World Powered by the Six-Core AMD Opteron(TM) Processor

#1 Cray XT5(TM) system "Jaguar" at Oak Ridge National Lab features almost a quarter million high-performance cores and is unrivaled world-wide / World's highest performing GPU-based supercomputer ever is fueled by ATI Radeon(TM) RV770 architecture

Cray "Jaguar" System

(PresseBox) Portland, OR, 16.11.2009, The Six-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processorbased system "Jaguar" is the world's supreme supercomputer according to the TOP500 Organization, which today released its biannual list of the highest performing systems in the world. This missioncritical Cray XT5(TM) system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was recently upgraded from quad- to Six-Core AMD Opteron processors and delivers 2.3 petaflop/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop/s performance on the Linpack benchmark.

- AMD continues its solid leadership in supercomputing, with 4 of the Top 5 systems depending on AMD for recordsetting performance including another recently upgraded Cray XT5 system "Kraken."

- AMD is leading the way forward with ultra high performance heterogeneous systems, including:

- the #5 system "Tianhe-1" in China, which is the fastest and one of the first worldclass implementations of a system architecture based on ATI Stream technology, achieving 563.1 teraflop/s performance with 5,120 ATI GPUs based on the RV770 architecture;
- and the former #1 system "Roadrunner" based on a dual CPU architecture including the AMD Opteron processor.

- While the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor is now the industryleading CPU for supercomputing, in the first quarter of 2010, AMD plans to deliver HPC customers the world's first 8- and 12core x86 processors, the AMD Opteron(TM) 6100 Series processor (codename "Magny-Cours") which is designed deliver up to a 100 percent increase in compute density and multithreading capability as compared to its sixcore predecessor, with 4 channels of DDR-3 memory and new power management and virtualization features.

- Beyond that, in the same infrastructure, AMD plans to deliver yet another industrychanging advancement in 2011 with the completely new "Bulldozer" architecture featuring a modular core design that is planned to dramatically increase concurrency, simultaneous commands and multithreading capacity with up to 16 dedicated cores, all designed to significantly improve HPC performance.

"We've seen the trend in the HPC industry's move to multicore x86based supercomputing and it's clear that the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor is the ideal choice right now for a worldclass supercomputer," said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server/Workstation and Embedded Division, AMD. "Today, AMD also powers the world's highest performing system leveraging the incredible floating point capability of AMD GPUs and bringing the vision of ATI Stream technology to life. Our OEM customers and the global institutions engaged in cuttingedge research and industrial HPC understand that a truly balanced system helps advance their work and provide an upgrade path to the future."

Supporting Resources

Video of Cray XT5 upgrade: http://www.youtube.com/...
Video of "Kraken": http://www.youtube.com/...
www.amd.com/supercomputing09
AMD@Work blog
www.amd.com/stream
www.TOP500.org

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