Advanced Micro Devices said on Wednesday that the amount of AMD-based supercomputers in the latest top 500 list by 15% sequentially. Apparently, the popularity of AMD Opteron processors with eight or twelve core increases among companies, who utilize high-performance computing (HPC) technologies.
Apparently, 33% of the top 100 HPC systems are based on the AMD Opteron processor. More than half of the 68 supercomputers based on AMD technology now feature the 8- and 12-core AMD Opteron 6100-series processor. Given such dynamics, it is easy to guess that several quarters from now the share of AMD-based HPCs will grow after the company begins shipments of its highly-anticipated Bulldozer-based Opteron processors code-named Interlagos and Valencia with up to sixteen and eight cores, respecitvely.
AMD gaining marketshare in supercomputers
Posted on Saturday, July 02 2011 @ 12:00 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck