AMD's Fusion enters HPC

[piesquared]

The whole cluster delivers 59.6 peak teraflops, but the idea here is not to break any performance records. The Sandia researchers will use the machine to explore programming models for integrated CPU-GPU platforms, relying primarily on OpenCL and MPI. The draw here is to be able to access the considerable vector capabilities of the GPU within the same memory space as the CPU.

First HPC cluster with AMD Fusion chips debuts at sandia

There's no doubt about it, the GPU is emerging as the next performance leap, probably a lot sooner than most think.


AMD pins exascale vision on Fusion APUs
The rebirth of vector processing

 

[cbn]

I agree this is great news!

I feel that AMD really needs OPEN CL to take hold!

 

[drizek]

Ya, Nvidia did Intel a huge favor by screwing AMD with CUDA.

 

[Dresdenboy]

Ya, Nvidia did Intel a huge favor by screwing AMD with CUDA.

... and by screwing Intel too. Ivy Bridge will have OpenCL support for the GPU.

 

[drizek]

Ya, but trinity will destroy ivy bridge in opencl. If it were more mainstream, amd could actually use that towelettes its ch

 

[nonameo]

So what are they going to call these? Sempteron?