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AMD processors to power academic Supercomputers

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SUNNYVALE, USA: Chipmaker AMD announced on Wednesday several new installations of advanced research and academic supercomputers will run on a wide range of AMD technology including the upcoming 16-core processor codenamed "Interlagos," the AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) and the AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor.

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 The latest deployments are Cray Inc supercomputers at the university of Edinburgh (HECToR), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), University of Stuttgart (HLRS) and Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).

"HPC is not a one-size-fits-all environment, and requires new technologies to keep pace with customer demands," said Paul Struhsaker, corporate vice president and general manager, Commercial Business at AMD. "Whether it's our upcoming 'Interlagos' processor or our energy-efficient APU, AMD's unique x86 and world-class graphics IP place us at the heart of some of the fastest systems as we push well beyond the petaflop towards the exaflop."

ORNL is upgrading its "Jaguar" system to the Cray XK6 supercomputer nicknamed "Titan." Powered by AMD's "Interlagos" processors, Titan will have peak performance between 10 and 20 petaflops (quadrillion mathematical calculations per second) of high performance computing power, the release added.

"ORNL is deploying more than 25,000 of AMD's 'Interlagos' processors over the next few months as we upgrade Jaguar to the new Titan system," said Buddy Bland, project director of ORNL's Leadership Computing Facility.

He added that their users are excited about the increase in performance over previous-generation processors, and their sponsors are delighted with the power savings that will make Titan one of the world's most powerful and efficient research tools.

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