AMD gets APU design win in QNAP NAS

[VirtualLarry]

As per PcPer:
http://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/Team-Red-gets-NASty-QNAP

Seems to be some sort of embedded SoC SKU. The article claims that it has a 28-SP GCN iGPU. Which sounds like a really weird number to me, I thought that GCN SPs came in blocks of 64. Maybe they meant to say 128, like AM1 Kabinis?

 

[Ancalagon44]

They probably left out a 1 - I'm sure it is supposed to be 128 streaming processors. If you look at this page, note the comparison between GX-420CA and GX424-CC - looks like a higher CPU clockspeed and lower GPU clockspeed.

 

[CHADBOGA]

Good to see, now they just need to keep doing this.

 

[NTMBK]

So, I take it this is just a rebadged Mullins/Beema?

 

[frozentundra123456]

Well it is a "design win" of sorts but there is no mention of any commitment for orders, so what does it really mean?

 

[Face2Face]

Very nice. Once PLEX releases their QNAP server app to work with AMD APUs it should be a decent little PLEX Server.

This little APU has a Passmark score of 2762, which is enough to transcode a single 1080p stream or a couple 720p streams. Maybe the next generation or two could replace my 6 core Windows based PLEX server?

 

[sm625]

What is that device going to do with 128SP? Transcoding is handled by entirely separate transistors isnt it?

 

[monstercameron]

What is that device going to do with 128SP? Transcoding is handled by entirely separate transistors isnt it?

The uvd\vce or CPU cores. The gpu...might not be needed.

 

[coercitiv]

As per PcPer:
http://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/Team-Red-gets-NASty-QNAP

You might want to replace the PcPer link in the OP with the Bjorn 3D review. More info, better info, pics and stuff

 

[cbn]

Apparently QNAP allows VMs to be used:

http://www.qnap.com/event/station/en/virtualization.php

So besides this route, what other options could make use of the 128 stream processors?

 

[Abwx]

Apparently QNAP allows VMs to be used:

http://www.qnap.com/event/station/en/virtualization.php

So besides this route, what other options could make use of the 128 stream processors?

In some distributed computing..?..Since the SP are here..

Other than that i m not sure that they wouldnt had extracted a better price from those 2.4GHz chips if they had released them for the AM1 plateform..

 

[cbn]

What is that device going to do with 128SP? Transcoding is handled by entirely separate transistors isnt it?

QNAP also has HD station, which allows the installation of Chrome and other apps:

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/5...t-generation-media-player-overview/index.html

P.S. If these NAS get more powerful, I reckon we will see additional apps. (And Hopefully Firefox too)

 

[William Gaatjes]

I am completely new to all the features modern day NAS provide.
Can this device be used as a server with several operating systems running under a virtual Machine ? Can it also run VMware player ?
I assume the disks are in a mirror/stripe (RAID 1+0) raid configuration ?

Would this not be handy for small business ?
A cheap server + UPS ?