AMD has won a major contract with the U.S. administration for the extension of a new supercomputer, Gaea, dedicated to climate simulations. This monster of calculation will use new AMD Bulldozer Interlagos to 16 hearts. Gaea has been operating since June 2010 but is currently using Opteron 2576 Magny-Cours to 12 cores at 2.1 GHz.
Its power is 260 teraflops. The Magny-Cours in June 2011 will be replaced by Bulldozer Interlagos to 16 hearts. The power output will then increase from 50% to 386 teraflops. In addition, a new cluster of 720 TFLOPS processor will be added. End of 2011, Gaea therefore exceed the cap of TFLOPS of computing power.
AMD could also be the provider of the next monster CPU computation U.S.. Titan named and designed for the famous Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the supercomputer will be assembled from this summer. According to a schedule presented last November, Titan is expected to exceed the Petaflops (1000 TFLOPS) in 2011 and reach 20 Pflops before the end of 2012.
Titan would be the most powerful supercomputer in the world, far ahead of BlueGene / Q Mira made by IBM. It will employ a hybrid architecture combining the power of the CPU with the GPU. According to researchers at ORNL, this approach has proven itself (the first computer in the world today, Chinese Tianhe-1A, uses it) both in terms of performance and performance per watt.
The latter criterion is essential because, at the rate of computing power increases in recent years, it would take between 50 and 100 MW to supply a supercomputer exaflops (1000 Pflops, 1 000 000 TFLOPS) in 2018. 
Its power is 260 teraflops. The Magny-Cours in June 2011 will be replaced by Bulldozer Interlagos to 16 hearts. The power output will then increase from 50% to 386 teraflops. In addition, a new cluster of 720 TFLOPS processor will be added. End of 2011, Gaea therefore exceed the cap of TFLOPS of computing power.
AMD could also be the provider of the next monster CPU computation U.S.. Titan named and designed for the famous Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the supercomputer will be assembled from this summer. According to a schedule presented last November, Titan is expected to exceed the Petaflops (1000 TFLOPS) in 2011 and reach 20 Pflops before the end of 2012.
Titan would be the most powerful supercomputer in the world, far ahead of BlueGene / Q Mira made by IBM. It will employ a hybrid architecture combining the power of the CPU with the GPU. According to researchers at ORNL, this approach has proven itself (the first computer in the world today, Chinese Tianhe-1A, uses it) both in terms of performance and performance per watt.
The latter criterion is essential because, at the rate of computing power increases in recent years, it would take between 50 and 100 MW to supply a supercomputer exaflops (1000 Pflops, 1 000 000 TFLOPS) in 2018.
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