AMD ATI Radeon powers GPU supercomputer.Byline: Dubai Advanced Micro Devices (AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. ), an innovative technology company, said the world's highest performing GPU-based supercomputer is being fueled by its ATI Radeon RV770 architecture. The Six-Core AMD Opteron processor-based system "Jaguar" is the world's supreme supercomputer, according to the TOP500 Organization, which on Wednesday released its bi-annual list of the highest performing systems in the world. This mission-critical Cray XT5 system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory ) was recently upgraded from quad- to Six-Core AMD Opteron processors and delivers 2.3 petaflop/s theoretical peak performance and 1.75 petaflop/s performance on the Linpack benchmark. AMD continues its solid leadership in supercomputing, with four of the Top 5 systems depending on AMD for record-setting performance including another recently upgraded Cray XT5 system "Kraken Kraken giant snakelike sea creature. [Dan. Folklore: Merca tante, 194–195] See : Monsters ." While the six-core AMD Opteron processor is now the industry-leading CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. for supercomputing, in the first quarter of 2010, AMD plans to deliver HPC customers the world's first 8- and 12-core x86 processors, said a top official. The AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor (codename "Magny-Cours") has been designed to deliver up to a 100 per cent increase in compute density and multi-threading capability as compared to its six-core predecessor, with 4 channels of DDR-3 memory and new power management and virtualization features. "In the same infrastructure, AMD plans to deliver yet another industry-changing advancement in 2011 with the completely new "Bulldozer" architecture featuring a modular core design that is planned to dramatically increase concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking , simultaneous commands and multi-threading capacity with up to 16 dedicated cores, all designed to significantly improve HPC performance," said Gaith Kadir, general manager of AMD, Mena and Turkey. "We've seen the trend in the HPC industry's move to multi-core x86-based supercomputing and it's clear that the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor is the ideal choice right now for a world-class supercomputer," he noted. "Today, AMD also powers the world's highest performing system leveraging the incredible floating point capability of AMD GPUs and bringing the vision of ATI Stream technology to life," Kadir added.- TradeArabia News Service Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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