AMD Opteron Processor-Based Installations See a Sevenfold Increase in Placements on the Newest TOP500 Supercomputer List.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- 30 AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Opteron(TM) Processor-Based Supercomputers Among the Prestigious TOP500 AMD (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AMD) today announced that 30 AMD Opteron(TM) processor-based systems are listed among the world's highest-performing supercomputers, as determined by the TOP500 Organization (www.top500.org). Building on an impressive debut on the TOP500 list in November 2003, AMD Opteron processor-based systems appear three times among the top 20 on the most recent list. The AMD Opteron processor launched in April 2003 to the anticipation of both the high performance computing (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) and enterprise IT communities and is the only server/workstation processor to feature AMD64 technology with Direct Connect Architecture. "The HPC community recognizes that the superior design of the AMD Opteron processor delivers tremendous performance gains on some of the world's most complex and demanding applications," said Marty Seyer, vice president and general manager for AMD's Microprocessor Business Unit. "AMD Opteron processor-based systems occupy the leading position in a number of industry-standard enterprise benchmarks including TPC-C A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. (TM) (4P servers), SAP(R) (4P servers), and MMB MMB Multimedia Builder (Multimedia presentation software) MMB Middle Mouse Button MMB Mighty Mighty Bosstones (band) MMB Memanbetsu, Japan (Airport Code) 2 (2P servers). AMD64 technology is on its way to becoming the preferred choice for enterprise and high performance computing." "X86-compatible systems are the system of choice in the technical cluster market. IDC estimates that over 90% of installed technical clusters are x86 compatible Refers to a computer system that is compatible with Intel's x86 CPU family. All operating systems and applications that run on Intel x86 systems (Core and Pentium CPUs) run exactly the same on an x86-compatible computer. For example, AMD is a large supplier of x86-compatible CPUs. including both x86 and x86-64 systems," said Earl Joseph, Research Vice President, High Performance Systems at IDC. "The overall technical server market showed strong revenue growth of over 12% in 2003, while technical clustered sales more than doubled from 2002 to 2003. IDC end-user research shows continuing requirements for improved price/performance; faster system performance; large memories; and software compatibility. The growing appearance of installed AMD Opteron processor-based systems on broad industry lists like the Top500 and IDC Balanced HPC Ratings is indicative of these trends." "With the introduction of our Cray XD1 and Red Storm-based products later this year, both of which fully exploit AMD Opteron processors and HyperTransport technology, we expect to expand our leadership on the new multi-test HPC Challenge benchmark as well as the TOP500 list," said Peter Ungaro, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Cray. "In conjunction with Direct Connect Architecture, Cray continues to gain substantial momentum in bringing HPC to a wider market." The TOP500 list is published twice yearly. It is based on the Linpack benchmark, which measures a computer's floating-point rate of executing linear equations and is expressed in Gigaflops (GIGA FLoating point OPerations per Second) One billion floating point operations per second. See FLOPS. (unit) gigaflops - (GFLOPS) One thousand million (10^9) floating point operations per second. (Gflop/s) or billions of floating point operations per second. The number 10 supercomputer, built by Dawning and in service at Shanghai Supercomputer Center, comes in as the highest AMD Opteron processor-based system on the TOP500, operating at a maximal Linpack performance rate of 8,061 Gflop/s with a theoretical peak performance of 11,264 Gflop/s. Also appearing in the top 20 are a Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National installation in the United States built by Linux Networx at number 11 and a system at the Grid Technology Research Center in Japan, built by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , at number 19. "The architectural design of the AMD Opteron processor makes it a popular choice in a scientific computing environment, especially as the trend toward clustering grows," said Jack Dongarra, Distinguished Professor at the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. and author of the Linpack benchmark. "AMD Opteron processors feature fast data throughput for computationally intensive applications." Additional AMD Opteron processor-based supercomputers featured on the TOP500 list include (overall ranking in parenthesis parenthesis: see punctuation. The left parenthesis "(" and right parenthesis ")" are used to delineate one expression from another. For example, in the query list for size="34" and (color = "red" or color ="green") ): --Universitaet Wuppertal in Germany built by Angstrom angstrom (ăng`strəm), abbr. Å, unit of length equal to 10−10 meter (0.0000000001 meter); it is used to measure the wavelengths of visible light and of other forms of electromagnetic radiation, such as ultraviolet Microsystems (74) --IBM/US Army Research Laboratory installations in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of built by IBM (109-112) --Veritas DGC DGC Directors Guild of Canada DGC Distributed Garbage Collector DGC Dystrophin-associated Glycoprotein Complex DGC Data General Corporation DGC Dakota Gasification Company DGC Dirección General de Caminos (Guatemala) in Houston built by Verari Systems, formerly RackSaver (136) --Brigham Young University in Utah built by IBM (140) --Umea University in Sweden built by HP (165) --Doshisha University, Intelligent Systems Design Laboratory in Japan built by Visual Technology (188) --Los Alamos The name Álamos can refer to the following:
--University of Utah built by Angstrom Microsystems (228) --AMD Developer Center in California built by Appro International (277) --University of Southampton in the United Kingdom built by IBM (287) --Volkswagen AG in Germany built by NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. (289) --University of Nebraska built by Atipa Technology (291) --Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the U.K. built by Streamline Computing (315) --National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado built by IBM (341) --HWW/Universitaet Stuttgart in Germany built by Cray, Inc. (411) --AMD Developer Center in California built by Verari Systems (430) --Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. built by Appro International (436) --University of Siegen in Germany built by IBM (464) --ISA Technologies in Australia built by IBM (465) A U.S.-based financial services company, an Italian-based automotive manufacturer and four government entities within the U.S. also use AMD Opteron-based supercomputers built by IBM. Those systems rank from number 458 to number 463. More than half of the AMD Opteron processor-based systems on the current list are manufactured by IBM. Many research institutions and universities have embraced the stability and reliability of the AMD Athlon(TM) MP processor line, which offers leading in-class performance and also appears throughout the TOP500 list. At the International Supercomputer Conference 2004 event in Heidelberg, Germany, AMD Chief Technical Officer Fred Weber will deliver a keynote address with William J. Camp of Sandia National Laboratory about the history of Sandia National Laboratory and Cray, Inc.'s "Red Storm" project and the opportunities that the massive supercomputer presented to AMD. The speech is scheduled for 10:45 a.m. Central European Time Central European Time Noun the standard time adopted by Western European countries one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, corresponding to British Summer Time Abbrev: (CET) on Thursday, June 24, 2004. About the AMD Opteron(TM) Processor The world's first 32-bit and 64-bit processor compatible with the x86 architecture, the AMD Opteron processor is based on AMD64 technology with Direct Connect Architecture. Direct Connect Architecture helps eliminate the bottlenecks inherent in a front-side bus by directly connecting the processors, the memory controller and the I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output to the central processor unit to enable improved overall system performance and efficiency. AMD also was the first to announce the completion of an x86-based dual-core processor design for 64-bit computing. As more solution providers join the AMD64 ecosystem, the industry is approaching the day when 32-bit-only systems will become obsolete. About AMD AMD (NYSE:AMD) designs and produces innovative microprocessors, Flash memory devices and low-power processor solutions for the computer, communications and consumer electronics industries. AMD is dedicated to helping its customers deliver standards-based, customer-focused solutions for technology users, ranging from enterprises and governments to individual consumers. For more information, visit www.amd.com. AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. TPC-C is a trademark of the Transaction Performance Council. SAP is a registered trademark of SAP Corp. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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