Il processore
AMD OPTERON a SEI CORE sul SUPERCOMPUTER più
potente al mondo
“Jaguar”,
dotato del processore AMD Opteron a sei core,
è il supercomputer più potente al mondo
secondo l’organizzazione TOP 500 che oggi ha
pubblicato l’elenco dei sistemi più
performanti al mondo.
Milano,
16/11/2009 - Most Powerful Supercomputer in
the World Powered by the Six-Core AMD
Opteron™ Processor
—#1 Cray XT5™ 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™
RV770 architecture—
PORTLAND, OR—Nov. 16, 2009— The Six-Core AMD
Opteron™ processor-based system “Jaguar” is
the world’s 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™ 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 record-setting
performance including another recently
upgraded Cray XT5 system “Kraken.”
· AMD is leading the way forward with ultra
high performance heterogeneous systems,
including
o the #5 system “Tianhe-1” 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;
o 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 industry-leading CPU for
supercomputing, in the first quarter of
2010, AMD plans to deliver HPC customers the
world’s first 8- and 12-core x86 processors,
the AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processor (codename
“Magny-Cours”) 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.
· Beyond that, in the same infrastructure,
AMD plans to deliver yet another
industry-changing advancement in 2011 with
the completely new “Bulldozer” 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.
“We’ve seen the trend in the HPC industry’s
move to multi-core x86-based supercomputing
and it’s clear that the Six-Core AMD Opteron
processor is the ideal choice right now for
a world-class 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
cutting-edge 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
Video of “Kraken”
www.amd.com/supercomputing09
AMD@Work blog
www.amd.com/stream
Photo of “Jaguar”
Photo of “Kraken”
Photo of Six-Core AMD Opteron processor die
www.TOP500.org
