Penguin Computing Talks about shipping High Performance Clusters based on Llano APU

caveman-jim · Nov 29, 2011, 01:35 PM

noko · Nov 30, 2011, 07:57 AM

This is coming quicker then I thought, if this works out, works out well then HPC could be changed overnight. Can't wait for Piledriver to be released next year, hopefully it will be a better performer.

caveman-jim · Nov 30, 2011, 10:44 AM

I don't understand your 'better performer' comment; AMD have 40% of the top 50 supercomputers using Opterons, and 4 of the top 10 supercomputers are Opteron based as well. What does that tell you about x86 performance as perceived by desktop enthusiasts vs. the needs of high performance compute? They are different.

If Llano is creating a shift in HPC, then piledriver based APU's will accelerate that.

noko · Nov 30, 2011, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by caveman-jim

I don't understand your 'better performer' comment; AMD have 40% of the top 50 supercomputers using Opterons, and 4 of the top 10 supercomputers are Opteron based as well. What does that tell you about x86 performance as perceived by desktop enthusiasts vs. the needs of high performance compute? They are different.

If Llano is creating a shift in HPC, then piledriver based APU's will accelerate that.

Very simple, better performer then Llano. Like Bulldozer is utterly a better performer then PhenonII

. HPC with GPU FP ability will be quite different then what is present now.

caveman-jim · Dec 1, 2011, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by noko

Very simple, better performer then Llano. Like Bulldozer is utterly a better performer then PhenonII

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This doesn't make sense...

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