Saturday July 08, 2006 The world's largest AMD Opteron processor-based supercomputer ranked seventh. The Tokyo Institute of Technology's TSUBAME supercomputer uses Sun Microsystems Sun Fire servers powered by more than 10,000 AMD Opteron processor cores. In provisional tests in May 2006, TSUBAME achieved a sustained performance of 38.18 teraflops.
Satoshi Matsuoka, professor in charge of computing infrastructure at the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, said: "I am strongly aware that one reason why TSUBAME now ranks as seventh on the Top 500 list is the robust, advanced processing performance of AMD Opteron. The Tokyo Institute of Technology intends to construct future Japanese supercomputers in the petaflop-speed class. Accordingly, we plan to proactively consider and utilize a range of cutting edge technologies, and specifically AMD processors." Full Story Posted by Rich Brueckner [HPC Article of the Day] ( July 08, 2006 01:00 AM ) Permalink
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