Sunday July 26, 2009 Sun's New Six-Core AMD Blades Boost Performance
Sun rolled out blades and rackmount servers this week based on AMD's new Istanbul 6-core processors:
"Sun's new x64 blades and rackmount servers with the latest Six-Core AMD Opteron processors are ideal for virtualization, enterprise workloads, datacenter consolidation and compute-intensive high performance computing (HPC). Servers with the new Six-Core AMD Opteron processors include the Sun Blade X6440 and X6240 server modules, the Sun Fire X4440 server and the Sun Fire X4540 storage server. Full Story Posted by Rich Brueckner [Processors] ( July 26, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
Thursday July 23, 2009 SPARC Powered: Japan’s Next-Generation Super
Fujitsu and Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as RIKEN, today announced that RIKEN has decided to employ a new system configuration with a scalar processing architecture for its next-generation supercomputer. The supercomputer will boast a performance of 10 petaflops upon completion in 2012 using Fujitsu's SPARC64™ VIIIfx CPU (8 cores, 128 gigaflops). As the world's highest-performance general-purpose CPU, the processor offers both performance and energy efficiency, achieving a computational speed of 128 gigaflops per CPU. Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [Processors] ( July 23, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
Sunday July 19, 2009 AMD intros new members of the six-core Istanbul family
Inside HPC has nice writeup on AMD's latest Istanbul chips that can help you decode all that confusing letter/number product naming soup:
"Large HPC clusters are often built out of the standard bin Opterons (an average rated power of 75w per socket) when AMD is used, rather than the SE as you might expect at first glance. This is because standard bin parts tend to offer both better price performance and the lower power consumption you need in anything other than moderate cluster deployments. Fruehe explains that the SE part (at 105W per socket) tends to do well in high performance scientific workstations, where aggregate power draw won’t be an issue. He does say that the lower power HE part (at 55W per socket) is seeing increased adoption in HPC, but that right now it tends to be built into systems that are more scale-out in nature (web or cloud infrastructure)." Full StoryPosted by Rich Brueckner [Processors] ( July 19, 2009 05:00 AM ) Permalink | Comments [0]
