SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - Nov 15, 2011) - SC11 -- At Supercomputing 2011, AMD (
"The world's most technically savvy minds have recognized the price-performance advantages AMD has to offer the HPC community as evident by the Blue Waters supercomputer deployment and the HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards," said Paul Struhsaker, corporate vice president and general manager, Commercial Business at AMD. "The HPC community demands scalable and strong floating point performance, high memory throughput and more cores for highly-threaded applications. It's these exact requirements that helped influence the design of the new AMD Opteron processors."
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The 16-core AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors are already powering several of the fastest HPC systems in the TOP500 list, including the fastest supercomputers in Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The new processors deliver unparalleled performance, scalability and efficiency with more cores than the previous generation for handling more threads per node, new technical instructions including AVX, FMA4 and XOP, significant memory enhancements, a new Flex FP for 256-bit floating point processing and additional features designed for HPC. Overall, AMD solutions are in 64 of the world's top 500 supercomputers. To learn more about the new AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor and the myriad of AMD solutions for HPC, visit www.amd.com/hpc.
Additional Resources
- AMD@Work blog
- Complete product information for the AMD Opteron 6200
- AMD at SC11: www.amd.com/sc11
- Product photos on AMD Flickr
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