AMD ATHLON MP DRIVES MOST X86 CLUSTER SUPERCOMPUTERS IN EUROPE AND ASIA.

AMD (NYSE:AMD) recently announced that the latest TOP500 Supercomputer list shows that AMD Athlon MP processor-based supercomputers from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH) are the highest performing x86 cluster supercomputers in Europe and Asia.

The University's Heidelberg Linux Cluster System (HELICS) supercomputer performs scientific research at its Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (ICSC). The ICSC center is a leader in the fields of reactive flows, human genome decryption, bio-computing and applied physics.

"The AMD Athlon MP processor-based supercomputer, paired with our expertise in parallel computing, helps significantly shorten cycle times in our research programs including bio-computing, reactive flows, optimization problems, technical simulations and image processing," said Dr. Wolfgang Hafemann, HELICS Project Leader at the University's ICSC.

"Cluster supercomputers are increasingly recognized as the most cost-effective way of generating high-performance supercomputing," said Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka, Professor of Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at TITECH. "And, as one can see from the latest TOP500 rankings, the AMD Athlon MP processors provide the level of performance needed for compute-intensive scientific applications.

"The larger significance of these rankings is that we have demonstrated that a single university lab can achieve terascale performance," added Matsuoka, referring to systems capable of performing a teraflop, or one trillion floating point operations per second. "In the near future, I expect to see multiple labs achieving computing power on the order of tens to hundreds of teraflops, making new scientific discoveries possible."

"The potential benefits we can derive from this type of research are astounding," said Giuliano Meroni, vice president of Sales and Marketing for AMD Europe. "It's inspiring to see that, around the world, AMD processors are helping the growth of scientific sectors like bio-computer science, mathematics and chemistry.

"AMD is absolutely committed to providing high performance computing solutions for both scientific and industrial applications," said Meroni. "These accomplishments highlight how effectively AMD works with our customers, and the best-in-class results achieved by working together."