Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Cray Inc. announced an agreement that extends their supercomputer development collaboration through the end of this decade. As part of the deal, the companies hope to develop a system that operates at a petaflop or more in performance.
Under the plan, Cray (Seattle, Wash.) will continue to use AMD’s 64-bit Opteron processors for its future supercomputer lines. In addition, the two companies will collaborate on Cray's mid-2006 proposal for Phase 3 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) contract.
The Darpa contract involves the High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) initiative. The program plans to provide next-generation computing systems for the national security, scientific and industrial user communities. The computers are targeted to run at sustained speeds of one petaflop (million-billion calculations per second) or more by the end of the decade.
Today, Cray offers the Cray XT3 and Cray XD1 supercomputers, based on the AMD’s 64-bit Opteron processor. The company also sells the Cray X1E supercomputer, based on Cray’s custom-built vector processors.
“After an extensive review of marketplace alternatives, we selected the AMD64 platform as the microarchitecture for our next-generation supercomputer products," said Cray President and CEO Peter Ungaro, in a statement. "In the near-term, the AMD Opteron processor roadmap provides our customers a smooth upgrade path to multi-core systems.”
By: DocMemory
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