It seems like AMD is now pacing thing with good speed and hopefully will recover losses after ATI merged into AMD. At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD announces that its AMD Opteron processors have helped deliver many of the top performing supercomputers in the world. For the first time ever, AMD technology plays a role in the number one supercomputer in the world and this same processor technology that helps drive the number one supercomputer is also readily available for business and personal computing.

“This current TOP500 list, with its first ever petascale performance, not only represents a milestone in scientific computing but also demonstrates the relevance of scalability and balanced system design in high performance computing (HPC). It also points to heterogeneous computing as an emerging and necessary step for the industry,” said Randy Allen, senior VP, Computation Solutions Group, AMD. “AMD and its many supercomputing partners, including top tier OEMs, recognize that for heterogeneous computing to be successful, collaboration among industry leaders is critical. The performance demonstrated on this list by AMD and our partners exceeds what any single solution has ever been able to achieve and we believe this tightly coupled innovation will become more prevalent to the benefit of HPC, as well as business and personal computing customers.”

AMD Opteron processor-based Cray supercomputers continue their long tradition of achieving high TOP500 rankings. Currently, 15 supercomputers based on the collaboration between Cray and AMD are delivering supercomputing customers with world-class computational power. This represents the 7th straight time that AMD Opteron processor-based Cray systems have been ranked in the top 10 on the TOP500 list and underscores the level of system design, innovation, and scalability that Cray and AMD together deliver.

“IDC forecasts that the market for high performance computing systems will continue growing rapidly and will reach $18 billion in 2012. Large-scale HPC systems enable major scientific and engineering breakthroughs and are at the forefront of issues that later affect enterprise and even desktop computing environments, such as parallel processing and power consumption,” said Steve Conway, IDC research vice president, HPC. “The AMD Opteron processor and AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture continue to play an important part in moving HPC capabilities forward across the globe.”

And we did like the competition but having fastest supercomputer does not effect the main consumers line but hey atleast we can say that my CPU is from the makers of world’s fastest supercomputers!