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In occasione dell'International Supercomputing Conference, AMD ha annunciato che il processore AMD Opteron continua a equipaggiare molti dei più potenti supercomputer del mondo, tra cui i due più importanti: il supercomputer "Roadrunner" che per la terza volta consecutiva monta processore AMD Opteron e "Jaguar" dell'Oak Ridge National Lab, basato invece sui processori Quad Core AMD Opteron.

AMD conferma inoltre che 20 tra i più potenti supercomputer, che fanno parte della lista dei Top 500, sono basati sui processori AMD Opteron.

Di seguito la notizia in inglese, in dettaglio.

At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that AMD Opteron^TM processors continue to power many of the highest-performing supercomputers in the world, including the top two overall.

AMD Opteron processor highlights from the latest Top500 Supercomputer Sites list include:

· For the third straight time, the AMD Opteron processor helps power the number one "Roadrunner" supercomputer;

· The Cray "Jaguar" supercomputer based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors at Oak Ridge National Labs is number two;

· AMD is utilized in nine of the top 20 supercomputers, more than any other processor provider;

· Four of the top 10 supercomputers use AMD Opteron processors;

· The AMD Opteron processor powers 20 Cray supercomputers, including six in the top 25;

· The recently launched Six-Core AMD Opteron processor (formerly code-named "Istanbul") has already appeared in two Cray XT5 supercomputers;

· The top two academic research supercomputers are based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors - "Kraken" at the University of Tennessee is number six and "Ranger" at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is number eight.

The semi-annual Top500 Supercomputer Sites list determines its rankings based on the LINPACK benchmark. Recently, Advanced Clustering Technologieswhich demonstrate a remarkable cost-per-GFLOP of $35.21. published LINPACK scores based on the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor