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AMD powers 4 of top 5 Supercomputers
VR-Zone - November 16, 2009 02:43 AM
The new edition of TOP500 is out - and it is a surprise to see AMD heavily featured in the fastest supercomputers. Of the top 5 supercomputers in the world - AMD products find there way into all but one. Surprisingly, we have to look at #5 for the first showing of Intel. Architecturally, Intel’s Nehalem based Xeon CPUs are vastly superior to AMD’s Shanghai based Opterons. However, six core Opterons do have a core count advantage. Even with 50% more cores, the quad core Xeons often sneaks past their Opteron rivals. There are applications which prefer the higher core count - and perhaps this is something supercomputer makers consider.More next page.
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