(Press Release) AMD has 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 are the highest performing x86 cluster supercomputers in Europe and Asia. The University's Heidelberg Linux Cluster System 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.
Twice each year since 1993, the TOP500 Supercomputer organization publishes its list of the 500 most powerful computer systems based on the LINPACK performance benchmark that measures performance among all classes of supercomputers. The HELICS supercomputer is 35th on the new TOP500 list, and TITECH's Presto III Cluster ranks 47th, marking the first time AMD processor-based systems have earned places in the top ten percent of the TOP500 rankings.
