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AMD Tops Top500

The world’s most powerful supercomputer is Jaguar according to the new semi-annual Top500 list

Nov. 20, 2009 02:00 PM

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The world's most powerful supercomputer is Jaguar, the recently upgraded Cray XT5 rig at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, according to the new semi-annual Top500 list. Jaguar's roughly 250,000 processors went from quad-core Opterons to six-core Istanbul Opterons and now delivers 2.3 petaflops of theoretical peak performance or 1.75 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark, dethroning IBM. Four of the top five machines are now AMD-based. This and Intel's money too. My, my. It's Cray's first time in the top spot. HP's got 210 of Top500 machines; IBM's got 186. China's got number five.

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