AMD drops share as IBM improves speeds
BIG GLUE has improved its placements in the latest list of the world's fastest 500 computers.
The list, published twice a year by academic boffins, was once again was topped by an IBM's supercomputer in the Lawrence Livermore national nuclear lab. The BlueGene/L system has just been upgraded and can manage 478 teraflops or 478 trillion calculations per second.
Big Blue also held the number two slot with its German research centre that came in at 167 teraflops.
Silicon Graphics' 127-teraflop system for the New Mexico Computing Applications centre came third.
Big Blue computers made up 46 per cent of the list while HP had 33 percent.
However the winner behind the scenes has to be Intel, whose chips are under the bonnet of more than 64 per cent of the machines on the list.
AMD chips showed up as holding only 16 per cent of the list, down from 21 per cent six months ago.
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Last time I checked, there was no such thing as a computer named Big Glue. Change it to Blue. Why doesn't anybody on this site care to proofread their own work? Its driving me nuts.
The #2 system on the top 500 is not an IBM Lab, it is the German equivalent to Livermore Labs.
Looking at www.top500.org it seems that when you include IA32, IA64 and EM64T Intel is inside more than 70% of the top500 list.
"BIG GLUE???
Last time I checked, there was no such thing as a computer named Big Glue. Change it to Blue. Why doesn't anybody on this site care to proofread their own work? Its driving me nuts.

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Its joke or nick inq likes it and i like it too it fun like calling AMD/ATi = dammit and other fun stuff hhee :D