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Natick, MA and Oslo, Norway—Dolphin Interconnect announced its plans to support the upcoming 64-bit AMD Opteron™ and AMD Athlon™ processors based on Hammer technology. Dolphin’s high-speed WulfKit™ clustering solution is currently implemented in several superclusters built on the AMD Athlon MP platform, two of which are ranked on the Top 500 supercomputer list. “The combination of the AMD Athlon processors and the Dolphin WulfKit interconnect system has proven successful in building high performance superclusters with impressive computing power,” said Kare Lochsen, CEO of Dolphin Interconnect Solutions. “Extending the WulfKit technology to AMD’s 64-bit processors substantially increases the performance levels our customers will be able to achieve in a supercluster.” WulfKit and WulfKit3 interconnect systems are a combination of a Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI) card and a powerful message passing interface (MPI). Dolphin’s latest innovation, WulfKit3, interconnects cluster nodes in a three-dimensional logical matrix, or cube. Very powerful superclusters can be built with WuflKit3 that achieve performance benchmarks comparable to clusters and supercomputers with substantially more nodes or processors. “Dolphin’s support of our upcoming 32- and 64-bit compatible AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon processors underscores the importance of 64-bit architecture in the high performance computing market,” said Ed Gasiorowski, director of AMD developer relations. “The power and scalability of the 64-bit AMD processors represent important advantages for customers building superclusters with the Dolphin WulfKit interconnect system.”