Cray XT5 Upgraded to Six-Core Istanbul
The Cray XT5, which comes in at number one in the 500 top supercomputers in the world, is getting a performance bump. The supercomputer's 37,376 processors are being upgraded from quad-core to six-core AMD Istanbul processors. The $20 million upgrade resulted in performance of 1.759 petaflops, or the equivalent of 1,759 trillion calculations per second.
"The most interesting thing about the Jaguar is that they have actually upgraded an existing supercomputer," says John Fruehe, director of Opteron product marketing for AMD. "And they have managed to double its speed."
"The most interesting thing about the Jaguar is that they have actually upgraded an existing supercomputer," says John Fruehe, director of Opteron product marketing for AMD. "And they have managed to double its speed."
Intel Pays AMD $1.25B In Anti-Trust Settlement
Intel has agreed to pay Advanced Micro Devices $1.25 billion to settle several anti-trust lawsuits pending in Delaware and Japan. The lawsuits alleged Intel had paid several companies to limit their use of AMD processors in the companies' products. As a result of the deal, previous disputes of processor patent rights will be resolved by an extended, five-year cross-licensing agreement, and AMD will drop any litigation against Intel.
Intel has already been ordered to pay a €1.06bn fine over its anti-competitive practices this year, when the European Commission found the chipmaker had illegally tried to dissuade PC manufacturers and retailers from using AMD's rival products.
Intel has already been ordered to pay a €1.06bn fine over its anti-competitive practices this year, when the European Commission found the chipmaker had illegally tried to dissuade PC manufacturers and retailers from using AMD's rival products.
Get [H]ard With Eyefinity By AMD
The guys over at [H]ard|OCP got a sneak preview of AMD's new Eyefinity technology and their upcoming GPU lineup. While there's not a whole lot of information about GPU power, the Eyefinity tech demoed seems like it has potential, especially in the high-end market. You will be able to seamlessly play your computer games across a total of six monitors per graphics card. I'm not sure how much I'm into the whole multi-monitor gaming setup, but apparently the sneak-peak was quite impressive.
It has been a good long while since I walked into a GPU demo that truly gave me a "Wow!" feeling. In fact the experience even surpassed "Wow!" It was more like, "Holy sheepdip Batman, that kicks ass!" I was simply blown away by the Eyefinity experience.
It has been a good long while since I walked into a GPU demo that truly gave me a "Wow!" feeling. In fact the experience even surpassed "Wow!" It was more like, "Holy sheepdip Batman, that kicks ass!" I was simply blown away by the Eyefinity experience.
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