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Intel claims supercomputing dominance

by Parm Mann on 16 November 2009, 15:03

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With the International Supercomputing Conference underway in Portland, Oregon, the world's leading processor manufacturers are all laying claim to supercomputing supremacy.

GPU-giant NVIDIA has unveiled new Tesla cards based on its Fermi architecture, whilst AMD now tops the bi-annual Top 500 Supercomputer list. The list, made available today, highlights that four of the five top systems AMD chips.

Encouraging news for Intel's main rival, but the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer isn't about to be undone as easily as that, and has itself announced that a record-breaking 402 of the world's top 500 systems are equipped with an Intel processor. That's just over a massive 80 per cent.

According to the 34th Top 500 list, 20 of the top 50 systems are powered by Intel, and 379 systems feature a quad-core Xeon processor.

To celebrate the news, Intel has announced that it will launch a High Performance Computing (HPC) optimised version of its forthcoming Nehalem-EX processor. Featuring six-cores (as opposed to eight), Intel will be able to run the chip at higher frequencies, enabling it to better suit HPC workloads.

The parallel processing threat from GPU giants continues to loom near, but Intel still remains a key ingredient to the vast majority of the world's most powerful supercomputers. Intel's dominance is likely to go unchallenged until the launch of AMD's next-generation processors, codenamed Magny-Cours.



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I guess the previous amd-positive title wasnt good enough?
LOL… Intel claim quantity while AMD claims quality. I wonder which is more important…

20 out of 50 of the top 50 super computers use Intel CPU's. So the other 30 supercomputers(in the top 50, with 4 top 5) are using AMD, not exactly something to boast about when you are Intel.

Guess they will try to boast about anything to try steal AMD's thunder.
ExHail
LOL… Intel claim quantity while AMD claims quality. I wonder which is more important…

20 out of 50 of the top 50 super computers use Intel CPU's. So the other 30 supercomputers(in the top 50, with 4 top 5) are using AMD, not exactly something to boast about when you are Intel.

Guess they will try to boast about anything to try steal AMD's thunder.

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No my friend, if you knew anything, or did any research you would know that Intel and AMD are not the only Supercomputer Chip makers. Acutally, AMD is in 3rd with the number of supercomputers with AMD chipsets. 42 (completly unrelated to the answer of Life, the Universe and Everything) is the number of AMD chipsets in the top 500 supercomputer list. Intel bags 396/500. When the numbers are THAT polarized, quanitity vs quality is rediculous since AMD processors are cheaper. That means even though it costs less for an AMD setup, Intel supercomputers reign supreme.

http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/procfam There you go bud.
ChuvelxD
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No my friend, if you knew anything, or did any research you would know that Intel and AMD are not the only Supercomputer Chip makers. Acutally, AMD is in 3rd with the number of supercomputers with AMD chipsets. 42 (completly unrelated to the answer of Life, the Universe and Everything) is the number of AMD chipsets in the top 500 supercomputer list. Intel bags 396/500. When the numbers are THAT polarized, quanitity vs quality is rediculous since AMD processors are cheaper. That means even though it costs less for an AMD setup, Intel supercomputers reign supreme.

http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/procfam There you go bud.

You said quantity vs quality is ridiculous then spout that Intel reigns supreme because they have more processors… you just contradicted yourself in the same post. Well done.

In terms of your link. The list is representative of the data throughput of the computer chips. Not about how many exist, how much they cost or what they actually do. It's about how much they are capable of doing when operated.

The fact that Intel force feed their processors down organisations throats through advertising and monopolistic business practises, which they have been found guilty of, is not a good measure of supremacy.
ExHail
You said quantity vs quality is ridiculous then spout that Intel reigns supreme because they have more processors… you just contradicted yourself in the same post. Well done.

In terms of your link. The list is representative of the data throughput of the computer chips. Not about how many exist, how much they cost or what they actually do. It's about how much they are capable of doing when operated.

The fact that Intel force feed their processors down organisations throats through advertising and monopolistic business practises, which they have been found guilty of, is not a good measure of supremacy.

+1. i guess he's a intel fanboy . supercomputers aren't benchmarked with how many supercomputers are made with a brand of processor but how fast they process a data. Pity intel, in the 500 list, 4 in the top 5 spots are amd based supercomputers than intel based supercomputers considering they have more entries.