SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwire) — 11/12/12 — (NYSE: AMD) announced today it has been recognized as a leader in high performance computing (HPC), receiving two awards from : a Readers- Choice Award for -Best HPC Collaboration between Government and Industry- and an Editors- Choice Award for -Top Five Vendors to Watch.- These awards further underscore AMD-s leadership position in supercomputing with its AMD Opteron processor family and its recent addition of the high performance processor.
AMD technology is used in many of the world-s leading supercomputers, including the new Oak Ridge National Labs “Titan” supercomputer, the in the world according to the recently released Top500 Supercomputer Sites list. AMD was also recently awarded $12.6 million by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as a part of the . This program aims to enable exascale computing and advance simulation-based scientific discovery by performing up to one quintillion calculations per second — roughly one thousand times faster than today-s fastest available supercomputers.
“AMD is committed to high performance computing with our AMD Opteron processors, and ecosystem support,” said John Gustafson, AMD-s senior fellow and chief product architect, Graphics Business Unit. “We are honored to be selected by both the readers and editors of HPCwire for the work we-ve been doing to expand the boundaries of computational power. AMD has a long track record of powering high performance computing, and we are continuing to create supercomputing solutions that help solve difficult scientific challenges in many different fields.”
HPCwire Readers- and Editors- Choice Awards are determined through online polling of the global HPCwire audience for the Readers- Choice Awards, combined with a rigorous selection process for the Editor-s Choice Awards, where winners are selected by a panel of editorial and executive staff, recognized HPC luminaries and contributing editors from across the industry.
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