During the annual International Supercomputing Conference held in Hamburg, published a list of Top500 supercomputers, which again in the first place was the computer Roadrunner on AMD processors. According to the source, this is the first supercomputer in the world of computers, to overcome speed of calculations with floating-point equal to 1.105. However, the supercomputer Jaguar, who took second place, also works on AMD and also has the speed of floating point higher than 1, when more precisely, 1,059.

Company AMD is much to be proud of. In the 33th issue of the list of Top500, updated twice a year, among the first 20 and the first 25 seats on most models of processors, AMD, among them two of the best research cluster (№ 6, of the University of Tennessee, and the number 8, from Texas A & M University). Of the top ten in four computers used CPU AMD.

The company Intel also has a reason for pride: the Top500 ranking of 399 locations employing models to Intel processors, 55-processor systems built on IBM, only 43 tons ─ processors for AMD. In the past, the list of Top500, published in November 20, had 379 systems on the processor Intel.

Companies IBM, Cray and HP, developing supercomputers, as compared to the previous version Top500 significantly increased the productivity of systems. To quantify the advantage from HP, this designed most of the systems of the list, but the performance conditions leading IBM. Total power Supercomputing Top500 increased since last year almost doubled, reaching 22.6. The latest Top500 entered the system with a capacity of not less than the 17.1 teraflop, while just over a year ago to get in Top500 required 12.64 teraflop. The average energy efficiency of supercomputers also grew, reaching 150 megaflop / watt (in November was 132 megaflop / watt). Also there is a tendency to move Quad processors. The current rating of 383 systems on the Top500 Quad processor, 47 more than six months ago. The four systems are used with the nine-core processor, two processors ─ Shanghai, the remaining 102 supercomputer working on dual processors.