{"id":13156,"date":"2009-11-16T23:18:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T23:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=13156"},"modified":"2009-11-16T23:18:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T23:18:20","slug":"most-powerful-supercomputer-in-the-world-powered-by-the-six-core-amd-opteron-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/most-powerful-supercomputer-in-the-world-powered-by-the-six-core-amd-opteron-processor\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World Powered by the Six-Core AMD Opteron&trade; Processor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>#1 Cray XT5\u2122 system &quot;Jaguar&quot; at Oak Ridge National Lab features almost a quarter million high-performance cores and is unrivaled world-wide<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>World&#8217;s highest performing GPU-based supercomputer ever is fueled by ATI Radeon\u2122 RV770 architecture<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Six-Core AMD Opteron\u2122 processor-based system &quot;Jaguar&quot; is the world&#8217;s supreme supercomputer according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top500.org\/\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.top500.org\/', 'TOP500']);\" >TOP500<\/a> Organization, which today released its bi-annual list of the highest performing systems in the world. This mission-critical Cray XT5\u2122 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) was recently upgraded from quad- to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/products\/server\/processors\/six-core-opteron\/Pages\/six-core-opteron.aspx\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/products\/server\/processors\/six-core-opteron\/Pages\/six-core-opteron.aspx', 'Six-Core AMD Opteron processors']);\" >Six-Core AMD Opteron processors<\/a> and delivers 2.3 petaflop\/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop\/s performance on the Linpack benchmark.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD continues its solid leadership in supercomputing, with 4 of the Top 5 systems depending on AMD for record-setting performance including another recently upgraded Cray XT5 system &quot;Kraken.&quot; <\/li>\n<li>AMD is leading the way forward with ultra high performance heterogeneous systems, including\n<ul>\n<li>the #5&#160; system &quot;Tianhe-1&quot; in China, which is the fastest and one of the first world-class 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; <\/li>\n<li>and the former #1 system &quot;Roadrunner&quot; based on a dual CPU architecture including the AMD Opteron processor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>While the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor is now the industry-leading CPU for supercomputing, in the first quarter of 2010, AMD plans to deliver HPC customers the world&#8217;s first 8- and 12-core x86 processors, the AMD Opteron\u2122 6100 Series processor (codename &quot;Magny-Cours&quot;) which is designed deliver up to a 100 percent increase in compute density and multi-threading capability as compared to its six-core predecessor, with 4 channels of DDR-3 memory and new power management and virtualization features. <\/li>\n<li>Beyond that, in the same infrastructure, AMD plans to deliver yet another industry-changing advancement in 2011 with the completely new &quot;Bulldozer&quot; architecture featuring a modular core design that is planned to dramatically increase concurrency, simultaneous commands and multi-threading capacity with up to 16 dedicated cores, all designed to significantly improve HPC performance. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&quot;We&#8217;ve seen the trend in the HPC industry&#8217;s move to multi-core x86-based supercomputing and it&#8217;s clear that the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor is the ideal choice right now for a world-class supercomputer,&quot; said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server\/Workstation and Embedded Division, AMD.&#160; &quot;Today, AMD also powers the world&#8217;s highest performing system leveraging the incredible floating point capability of AMD GPUs and bringing the vision of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/products\/technologies\/stream-technology\/Pages\/stream-technology.aspx\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/products\/technologies\/stream-technology\/Pages\/stream-technology.aspx', 'ATI Stream technology']);\" >ATI Stream technology<\/a> to life.&#160; Our OEM customers and the global institutions engaged in cutting-edge research and industrial HPC understand that a truly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/products\/technologies\/direct-connect-architecture\/Pages\/direct-connect-architecture.aspx\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us\/products\/technologies\/direct-connect-architecture\/Pages\/direct-connect-architecture.aspx', 'balanced system']);\" >balanced system<\/a> helps advance their work and provide an upgrade path to the future.&quot;&#160; 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