The 34th edition of the TOP 500 has just been published. This list shows the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. The defending champion is the latest evolution of the Cray XT5 called Jaguar. This supercomputer or many uses AMD Opteron processors including the recent Istanbul six hearts (224,162 cores total). It is the national center for computer science National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This beast almost reached 1.75 petaflop per second (2.3 petaflop peak). If in terms of units, AMD is still behind Intel, he may rejoice to see its Opteron to six cores present in a number of machines of this classification. The top five supercomputers are based on the AMD. It should be noted with a smile in the first ten found a Chinese machine with Intel Xeon CPU ... and AMD GPU signed!

While the Texan firm prepares its Magny-Cours to 8 and 12 cores in early 2010, Intel does not remain idle. The 6 core Xeon should land in the first half of next year. They are similar to Gulftown and offer frequencies above Beckton, the Xeon to eight cores. These new processors will be installed in systems with up to 256 processors or cores 1536 Physical!

The game of cat and mouse has taken the side of the HPC (high performance computing) and this highly symbolic should be very active in the coming months with the presence of more and stronger of the GPU, and the arrival of farm architecture from NVIDIA!

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