By ChannelWeb, June 10,2008
IBM's new super computer, Roadrunner, is billed at the fastest in the world, operating at one petaflop or one thousand trillion calculations per second. The speed demon was built for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to ensure the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. IBM said that in the past 10 years, supercomputer power has increased about 1,000 times. Today, just three of Roadrunner's 3,456 tri-blade units have the same power as the 1998 fastest computer. Now, a complex physics calculation that will take Roadrunner one week to complete, would have taken the 1998 machine 20 years to finish.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
AMD GPGPU solutions get extra support from industry partners
by Rys, 11th June 2008
A couple of companies producing software solutions that target the GPU and CPU for general purpose programming acceleration have announced partnerships with AMD. RapidMind is the more well-known of the two, with a recent press release highlighting support for RV670 in their Multi-Core Development Platform. The software platform lets developers developer write-once, run-many applications accelerated by a range of multi-core processors that their runtime can target. In the press release, Patricia Harrell, AMD Director of Stream Computing -- surely one of the more interesting positions in the industry at large right now -- makes note that the platform targets both AMD CPUs and GPUs. Multi-socket, multi-core Opteron, and multi-GPU Radeon or FireStream with RapidMind layered on top would certainly be one of the more interesting development platforms right now. Outfitted with upcoming Radeon products, it'd be possible to easily build single machines with those components that feature peak floating point rates in the 2Tflop+ range for single precision, with leading single-box DP rates on top via both GPU and CPU.
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A couple of companies producing software solutions that target the GPU and CPU for general purpose programming acceleration have announced partnerships with AMD. RapidMind is the more well-known of the two, with a recent press release highlighting support for RV670 in their Multi-Core Development Platform. The software platform lets developers developer write-once, run-many applications accelerated by a range of multi-core processors that their runtime can target. In the press release, Patricia Harrell, AMD Director of Stream Computing -- surely one of the more interesting positions in the industry at large right now -- makes note that the platform targets both AMD CPUs and GPUs. Multi-socket, multi-core Opteron, and multi-GPU Radeon or FireStream with RapidMind layered on top would certainly be one of the more interesting development platforms right now. Outfitted with upcoming Radeon products, it'd be possible to easily build single machines with those components that feature peak floating point rates in the 2Tflop+ range for single precision, with leading single-box DP rates on top via both GPU and CPU.
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Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT and ATI Radeon 4870 get a 225 watt TDP
By Theo Valich, June 10, 2008
The battle for mainstream graphics supremacy will enter a new phase with month, with both Nvidia and AMD's graphics unit ATI being expected to introduce their latest contenders within two weeks. And if power supply is any indication, then both products could be swimming against the green IT trend and turn out to be very power hungry. Nvidia's and ATI's next graphics cards may be vastly different overall, but they will share some features such as 512 MB of memory (GDDR3 on the GeForce, GDDR5 on the Radeon) as well as power and cooling requirements. We recently learned that the GeForce 9800GT and Radeon 4870, both of which will aim at the sub-$300 segment, will come with two 6-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) connectors, each supplying 75 watts of power. With PCI Express slot providing 75 watts of juice and the motherboard another 75 watts, there is a theoretical supply of up to 225 watts. That is quite a jump in the sub-$300 segment and it makes you wonder what the reasons may be, but we are certain that overclockers won't mind. One of key limitations for the extreme overclocking of the previous generation parts was the fact that the cards (3850, 3870, 8800GT, 8800GTS512) had only one power connector.
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The battle for mainstream graphics supremacy will enter a new phase with month, with both Nvidia and AMD's graphics unit ATI being expected to introduce their latest contenders within two weeks. And if power supply is any indication, then both products could be swimming against the green IT trend and turn out to be very power hungry. Nvidia's and ATI's next graphics cards may be vastly different overall, but they will share some features such as 512 MB of memory (GDDR3 on the GeForce, GDDR5 on the Radeon) as well as power and cooling requirements. We recently learned that the GeForce 9800GT and Radeon 4870, both of which will aim at the sub-$300 segment, will come with two 6-pin PEG (PCI Express Graphics) connectors, each supplying 75 watts of power. With PCI Express slot providing 75 watts of juice and the motherboard another 75 watts, there is a theoretical supply of up to 225 watts. That is quite a jump in the sub-$300 segment and it makes you wonder what the reasons may be, but we are certain that overclockers won't mind. One of key limitations for the extreme overclocking of the previous generation parts was the fact that the cards (3850, 3870, 8800GT, 8800GTS512) had only one power connector.
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DivX to find its way to more handsets, courtesy of AMD
By Michael Hatamoto, June 10, 2008
AMD and DivX today announced a licensing agreement in which DivX technology will be implemented into future AMD Imageon processors commonly used in mobile phones and other handheld products. The companies already have existing licensing and certifications, but this recent licensing agreement will focus on DivX certification for AMD's Imageon A250 application processor, announced at the Mobile World Congress in February. Consumers benefit from a stronger relationship between AMD and DivX because video playback, higher quality imaging, and vector graphics are all "DivX Certified," ensuring the processor has gone through a testing routine to ensure the CPU works as well as possible.
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AMD and DivX today announced a licensing agreement in which DivX technology will be implemented into future AMD Imageon processors commonly used in mobile phones and other handheld products. The companies already have existing licensing and certifications, but this recent licensing agreement will focus on DivX certification for AMD's Imageon A250 application processor, announced at the Mobile World Congress in February. Consumers benefit from a stronger relationship between AMD and DivX because video playback, higher quality imaging, and vector graphics are all "DivX Certified," ensuring the processor has gone through a testing routine to ensure the CPU works as well as possible.
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