{"id":4106,"date":"2009-11-24T18:37:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T08:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2009-11-24T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T08:37:48","slug":"most-powerful-supercomputer-in-the-world-powered-by-the-six-core-amd-opteron%e2%84%a2-processor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=4106","title":{"rendered":"Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World Powered by the Six-Core AMD Opteron\u2122 Processor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Most Powerful Supercomputer in the World Powered by the<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Six-Core AMD Opteron\u2122 Processor<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><em>World\u2019s highest performing GPU-based supercomputer ever is fueled by ATI Radeon\u2122 RV770 architecture<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">&#8211;\u00a0The Six-Core AMD Opteron\u2122 processor-based system \u201cJaguar\u201d is the world\u2019s supreme supercomputer according to the TOP500 Organization, which today released its bi-annual list of the highest performing systems in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u00b7 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 \u201cKraken.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0Beyond that, in the same infrastructure, AMD plans to deliver yet another industry-changing advancement in 2011 with the completely new \u201cBulldozer\u201d architecture featuring a modular core design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve seen the trend in the HPC industry\u2019s move to multi-core x86-based supercomputing and it\u2019s clear that the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor is the ideal choice right now for a world-class supercomputer,\u201d said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server\/Workstation and Embedded Division, AMD.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Sydney, Australia: Nov.\u00a024 2009<\/strong>\u2014 The Six-Core AMD Opteron\u2122 processor-based system \u201cJaguar\u201d is the world\u2019s supreme supercomputer according to the TOP500 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 Six-Core AMD Opteron processors and delivers 2.3 petaflop\/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop\/s performance on the Linpack benchmark.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">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 \u201cKraken.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">AMD is leading the way forward with ultra high performance heterogeneous systems, including: T<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">he #5\u00a0 system \u201cTianhe-1\u201d in China, which is the fastest and one of the first world-class implementations of a system architecture based on ATI,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Stream technology, achieving 563.1 teraflop\/s performance with 5,120 ATI GPUs based on the RV770 architecture;<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">and the former #1 system \u201cRoadrunner\u201d based on a dual CPU architecture including the AMD Opteron processor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">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\u2019s first 8- and 12-core x86 processors, the AMD Opteron\u2122 6100 Series processor (codename \u201cMagny-Cours\u201d) 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.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Beyond that, in the same infrastructure, AMD plans to deliver yet another industry-changing advancement in 2011 with the completely new \u201cBulldozer\u201d 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve seen the trend in the HPC industry\u2019s move to multi-core x86-based supercomputing and it\u2019s clear that the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor is the ideal choice right now for a world-class supercomputer,\u201d said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server\/Workstation and Embedded Division, AMD.\u00a0 \u201cToday, AMD also powers the world\u2019s highest performing system leveraging the incredible floating point capability of AMD GPUs and bringing the vision of ATI Stream technology to life.\u00a0 Our OEM customers and the global institutions engaged in cutting-edge research and industrial HPC understand that a truly balanced system helps advance their<\/span> <span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">work and provide an upgrade path to the future.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Supporting Resources<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000227\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.vision6.com.au\/ch\/2vqctjh\/1043459\/047dcvsyc.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Video of Cray XT5 upgrade<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000227\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.vision6.com.au\/ch\/2vqctjh\/1043460\/047dc3zfk.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Video of \u201cKraken\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000227\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.vision6.com.au\/ch\/2vqctjh\/1043461\/047dcjzd8.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">www.amd.com\/supercomputing09<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000227\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.vision6.com.au\/ch\/2vqctjh\/1043462\/047dcqj3c.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">AMD@Work<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">blog<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000227\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.vision6.com.au\/ch\/2vqctjh\/799916\/047dcm08k.html\"><\/a><a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000227\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.vision6.com.au\/ch\/2vqctjh\/799916\/047dcm08k.html\">www.amd.com\/stream<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000227\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.vision6.com.au\/ch\/2vqctjh\/1043463\/047dcqrtj.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Photo of \u201cJaguar\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000227\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.vision6.com.au\/ch\/2vqctjh\/1043464\/047dcwdzh.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Photo of \u201cKraken\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000227\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.vision6.com.au\/ch\/2vqctjh\/1043465\/047dc181dv.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Photo of Six-Core AMD Opteron processor die<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"mhtml:{534E9537-84FB-4BE9-9ACE-046B3188061A}mid:\/\/00000227\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.vision6.com.au\/ch\/2vqctjh\/1043466\/047dc157pt.html\">www.TOP500.org<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>About AMD<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Advanced Micro Devices is an innovative technology company dedicated to collaborating with customers and technology partners to ignite the next generation of computing and graphics solutions at work, home and play. 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