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HPC Advisory Council Panel: AMD. AMD Value Proposition for HPC. AMD HPC Strategy. AMD continues to offer a balanced platform approach to enable success in HPC environments by offering customers the most productivity per watt for HPC deployments.
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AMD Value Proposition for HPC AMD HPC Strategy AMD continues to offer a balanced platform approach to enable success in HPC environments by offering customers the most productivity per watt for HPC deployments. • Deliver industry-leading solutions leveraging: • Fine-grain data parallel code support through our CPU roadmaps • Maps very well to integrated SIMD dataflow (i.e. SSE) • Course-grain data parallel code support though our GPU roadmaps • Maps very well to throughput-oriented data parallel engines
AMD Fiorano Platform: Shanghai Processor • Performance • Quad-Core AMD Shanghai Processor • 6M Shared L3 Cache • CPU Core IPC Enhancements • 45nm Process Technology • HyperTransport-3 up to 4.4 GT/sec • Enhanced Memory Controller • Up to 42 Lanes of PCI-Express 2 • Dual x16 Interface Support RDDR-2 Up to 8 DIMMs HT-3 Shanghai DIMM DIMM DIMM DIMM DIMM DIMM DIMM DIMM HT-3 • Power Management • AMD PowerCap Manager • AMD Smart Fetch 1 Engine/ 4 Lanes AMD SR5690 x8 x4 x16 or x8 x1 • Virtualization • AMD-V™ with AMD-Vc (RVI) • 25% Faster World Switch • AMD-Vi (I/O Virtualization) x8 6 Engines/ 6 Lanes x1 x16 or AMD-Vi x8 x4 x4 • Reliability/Availability • L3 Cache Index Disable • HyperTransport Retry (HT-3 Mode) 12+2 Lanes AMD SP5100 USB 6 Channel SATA II PCI 2.3 PCI • Scalability • 48-bit Physical Addressing LPC PATA • Shanghai Compatibility • Nvidia/Broadcom-based F/1207 Platforms