Supercomputing's Top500: AMD fuels top machines, but Intel dominates

摘要

Advanced micro devices powers the world's three largest supercomputers, according to the latest version of the supercomputing world's Topsoo list. But archrival Intel Corp. still dominates the list, with processors in 80 percent of the cited systems.rnChina was another winner in the latest rankings, with its most powerful system to date coming in at No. 5. And quad-core processors fuel a whopping 427 of the listed systems, in a sign of the love affair between high-performance computers and multicore CPUs.