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AMD set to overtake Blue Gene/L

TACC system to spot 500 TFLOPS, 100 TB memory
By Theo Valich
Tue Sep 11 2007, 11:49
EVEN IF AMD ENDS the year without overtaking Intel in performance, it seems that Chimpzilla is on the road to take world's #1 spot in Top500 Supercomputers list.

Current #1 super computer is no other than Big Blue's BlueGene/L, located in DoE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with 280.6 TFLOPS.

AMD and Sun are working with Texans in TACC Supercomputer project. TACC (Texas Advance Computing Center) won $59 Million from National Science Foundation to build largest supercomputer, and this baby is currently being assembled - plan is to deliver 500 TFLOPS, or almost double the number that Blue Gene/L achieves.

In order to do that, TACC supercomputer is consisted out of following components:

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As you can see, 16.000 AMD Barcelonas, 100TB of RAM and 1.7 PB of storage - all assembled by Sun

If AMD manages to deliver this monster, it will be the very first time AMD has its hearts inside the most powerful supercomputer. We'll see. µ

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