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T2K Open Supercomputer Systems with Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors Now in Operation |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Tuesday, 03 June 2008 00:03 |
— Computing power, scalability and energy-efficiency of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor contributes to supercomputers with specifications developed by University of Tsukuba, University of Tokyo, and Kyoto University —
TOKYO -- June 2, 2008 --AMD Japan (NYSE: AMD) today announced the official start of operation of the T2K supercomputer systems featuring Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors and with specifications developed jointly by the University of Tsukuba, the University of Tokyo, and Kyoto University. These T2K systems were delivered to the University of Tsukuba by Cray Japan Inc. and Sumisho Computer Systems, to the University of Tokyo by Hitachi Ltd., and to Kyoto University by Fujitsu Ltd.
“In July 2006, these three universities began jointly developing common specifications for each university’s next-generation supercomputer with an eye toward using their supercomputers collaboratively,” said Shunsuke Yoshizawa, director, Regional Marketing, AMD Japan. “The universities aimed to adopt the most advanced and highest performance technology as early as possible, and have engaged in three pillars of openness that make up this new shared specifications experiment: the use of open source hardware architecture, open source system software, and their desire to make the supercomputers widely available amongst the three institutions. The performance, scalability and advance floating point processing capability of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor easily matched their requirements.”
The University of Tokyo supercomputer system is comprised of 952 nodes of the Hitachi HA8000-tc/RS425 technical server with four Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors per node. The system as designed achieves a theoretical peak performance of approximately 140 teraflops. A teraflop or “tflop” is the computing power required to process one trillion floating point operations per second. This theoretical peak performance is the fastest in Japan at the time of launch.
The University of Tsukuba’s system was built by Cray Japan Inc. and Sumisho Computer Systems and is based on Appro International’s Xtreme-X Supercomputer, while the Kyoto University’s system was built around the Fujitsu HX600 HPC server. Both supercomputers are equipped with four Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors per node. The University of Tsukuba’s system can achieve a theoretical peak performance of approximately 95 tflops, while the Kyoto University system tops out at a theoretical peak performance of approximately 61 tflops.
The T2K supercomputers will provide these universities and their researchers with the outstanding system performance and advanced floating point processing enabled by Quad-core AMD Opteron processors. The selection of AMD technology for these highly advanced systems can also provide the universities with much-needed energy efficiency in the form of performance-per-watt and innovative processor-level power management features such as AMD CoolCore™ Technology and Independent Dynamic Core Technology.
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IBM and Unisys Announce Barcelona Servers |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008 00:17 |
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The Inquirer reports that IBM and Unisys have both announced new Barcelona servers. The IBM x3455 is a two socket box with up to 48GB od memory. The x3655 handles up to 64GB of memory. If that is not enough then the x3755 at about $10,000 can handle 128GB. Unisys also has several models that range up to $50,000. Unisys decided to start building AMD based servers due to Barcelona's new 'rapid virtualisation indexing' technology. These quad-core Opteron features enable virtual machines to manage memory more directly, improving performance.
This newest Unisys server is the ES7000 Model 7405R, an eight-socket, quad-core server line that Unisys claims can handle up to 128 virtual machines. That's up to four virtual machines running on each CPU core. Unisys ES7000 model ES7540R prices start out at $21,000, up to about $50,000 or more, depending on configuration. |
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HP Leads In AMD Server Shipments and Revenue |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Monday, 26 May 2008 00:18 |
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HP has issued a press release trumpeting their server performance in Q1. They lead in revenue and shipments on AMD powered servers. HP maintained its No. 1 position in both revenue and vendor units shipped in the highly competitive x86-64 processor-based server market segment. HP shipped 2.3 times and 18.4 times more servers than its closest competitors, leading in both Intel and AMD x86-64-based servers. Itanium server sales also went up from almost nothing to almost nothing plus 24%. I guess Intel makes them include a mention of Itanium. |
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Inside University of Texas Ranger Supercomputer |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Friday, 23 May 2008 00:55 |
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The Statesman has details about the new University of Texas Ranger supercomputer. It is Sun built and quad core Opteron powered. There are over 15,000 Opterons in it. |
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