Today I was going through the reader's comments section of a news article and found this post claiming that Intel's supremacy in microprocessor industry is beyond doubt as most premium brand in household computing, Apple has endorsed Intel processors. I just posted a short reply there asking what would he say if he comes to know that the most premium brand in supercomputing industry has endorsed AMD. But posting just a reply didn't seem enough to me and i thought of posting this story here, though its quite old.
According to a press release on Cray's site on Nov 14th '05 AMD and Cray announced that they have reached an agreeemntto exten their ten year long relationship and hence Cray will use Opteron chips to build its microprocessor based supercomputers in future. The two firms will actively collaborate on Cray's mid-2006 proposal for Phase 3 of the federal government's DARPA HPCS (High Productivity Computing Systems) program.
Cray President and CEO Peter Ungaro stated that after very extensive review of marketplace alternatives they have chosen AMD64 platform as the microarchitecture for our next-generation supercomputer products. He also said "In the near-term, the AMD Opteron processor roadmap provides our customers a smooth upgrade path to multi-core systems. Through 2010, AMD's multi-core processor roadmap and HyperTransport(TM) technology capabilities stand out for their ability to help meet our aggressive performance goals. Our success working with AMD in developing the Cray XT3(TM) and the Cray XD1(TM) systems gives us great confidence that AMD is the right partner to help Cray advance the boundaries of high performance computing."
Currently two of the Cray supercomps run on Opterons, Cray XT3 and Cray XD1; while the Cray X1E is based on Cray custom-built vector processors.
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According to a press release on Cray's site on Nov 14th '05 AMD and Cray announced that they have reached an agreeemntto exten their ten year long relationship and hence Cray will use Opteron chips to build its microprocessor based supercomputers in future. The two firms will actively collaborate on Cray's mid-2006 proposal for Phase 3 of the federal government's DARPA HPCS (High Productivity Computing Systems) program.
Cray President and CEO Peter Ungaro stated that after very extensive review of marketplace alternatives they have chosen AMD64 platform as the microarchitecture for our next-generation supercomputer products. He also said "In the near-term, the AMD Opteron processor roadmap provides our customers a smooth upgrade path to multi-core systems. Through 2010, AMD's multi-core processor roadmap and HyperTransport(TM) technology capabilities stand out for their ability to help meet our aggressive performance goals. Our success working with AMD in developing the Cray XT3(TM) and the Cray XD1(TM) systems gives us great confidence that AMD is the right partner to help Cray advance the boundaries of high performance computing."
Currently two of the Cray supercomps run on Opterons, Cray XT3 and Cray XD1; while the Cray X1E is based on Cray custom-built vector processors.
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