AMD Beat Intel: Supercomputers

Soon the official list of the top 500 supercomputers will be revealed to us, this list is created twice a year and will be revealed to us at the SC09 conference which will take place in Portland Oregon.

According to a recent blog posted on ComputerWorld it seems that AMD have outdone Intel this time, according to sources the top four supercomputers are all AMD-based.

The supercomputer which has come top of the list is a Cray supercomputer, this supercomputer is based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and is said to be an upgraded Jaguar supercomputer which now boasts a speed of “1.759 petaflops per second from its 224,162 cores.”

To find out fully detailed information regarding the supercomputers performance etc check out ComputerWorld.

Does AMD’s dominance in this area surprise you?