AMD succeeds in trouncing Intel
It’s, without a shred of doubt, a great feat for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD); the company, at last, has been able to surpass Intel thanks to its crowning glory in the Top 500 list of speedy supercomputers. There is almost no doubt that the company deserves this for the reason that the first four are powered by its chips.
Let’s get more specific. In accordance with the revelation of the TOP500 organization, Jaguar, at the moment, is the world's fastest supercomputer and is at present located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). It is to be noted that the advanced Jaguar mammoth - a Cray XT5 model - is powered by AMD's six-core Opteron server processors that are destined to generate up to 2.3 petaflops worth of theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflops on the popular Linpack benchmark.
It is to be noted, in the region of 224,000 cores - 33700 processors - have played commendable roles in helping the Jaguar exceed the Roadrunner, the IBM-built supercomputer. Roadrunner had been remaining at the top spot for more than one year and was also the first one to step forward the one petaflop barrier. It is, perhaps, essential to mention also that the third fastest supercomputer, the Kraken, at this time at the National Institute for Computational Sciences at the University of Tennessee, also makes use of AMD Opteron processors and has a top computational speed of 0.832 petaflop.
Although, in spite of all these accomplishments, the TOP500 list of supercomputers is dominated by AMD's archrival, Intel, AMD, thanks to its triumph, will have a better chance next year when it will introduce a new range of microprocessors that will pack even more cores (8, 12 and 16 respectively) per CPU.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. happens to be an American multinational semiconductor company based in Sunnyvale, California, and is engaged with the development of computer processors and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets. Its main products include microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, embedded processors and graphics processors for servers, workstations and personal computers, and processor technologies for handheld devices, digital television, automobiles, game consoles, and other embedded systems applications.
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