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Forget AMD, forget Intel, get the best, get Cray

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Want A Really, Really Fast Processor? - Forget AMD, forget Intel, get the best, get Cray
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A Silicon Valley company just announced that they started shipping a FPGA based coprocessor designed to be used on a socket 940 multiprocessor motherboard that is normally used to house one or more AMD Opteron processors. DRC Computer says that its RPU (reconfigurable processing unit) eliminates bottlenecks like limited bandwidth and increased latency normally associated with co-processors in super computing applications.

The RPU connects a "field programmable gate array"( FPGA for short) directly with the host system's HyperTransport bus (an upgraded AMD specific processor bus) in order to obtain more bandwidth and a big drop in latency times compared with other co-processor interfaces like PCI and Ethernet. As a bonus for a really bandwidth processor, each RPU can be configured to sustain three HT connections, for a total bandwidth of 9.6Gbps. Depending on the application this new technology can help increase the speed 10 or 20 times as compared with software running on a single general purpose processor. Coupling an FPGA tightly to a general purpose processor and main system memory means that only processor-intensive subroutines have to be synthesized onto the FPGA, DRC said. Other touted benefits include lower power, cooling, and footprint requirements, compared to off-board coprocessors.

In addition to 1-3 HyperTransport logic units, each RPU integrates a pair of DDR2 memory controllers. One tightly couples the RPU to main system memory, while the other interfaces with 1GB or 2GB of DDR2 RAM built right into the RPU itself. With 8GB of system memory, and 2GB of RPU memory, system memory bandwidth can reach 17GB/second, DRC claims, as cited by Linuxdevices. The initial RPU model, the RPU110, is available with a choice of three FPGAs, including Xilinx's Virtex LX 100, LX 160, or LX 200. The FPGAs clock up to about 400MHz, according to DRC spokesperson Giang Le, and are the largest FPGAs available.

The supercomputer vendor Cray, which offers the co-processor as an option for theXT3 line is a well known advocate of the RPU unit. The Cray company can deliver a XT3 rack with 96 RPUs and 48 Opteron processors. Clay Marr, VP of marketing at DRC, said that, "Markets such as financial services, oil and gas, and life sciences are demanding more powerful computing from their standards-compliant systems but also want to conserve energy."


Image comment: Reconfigurable Processing Unit
Image credits: DRC Computer



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Post time 27-1-2009 07:48 PM | Show all posts
bump
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Post time 27-1-2009 10:52 PM | Show all posts
kenapa bump?

tak dengar pun perkemangan pasal benda ni?
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Post time 27-1-2009 11:54 PM | Show all posts
cray?? ade ke jual kat sini masalahnye...
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Post time 28-1-2009 12:32 AM | Show all posts

Reply #3 adie82's post

topik dh lama, tp tkde org reply.
sblom recycle, bump dulu kot2 ada org minat.
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Post time 28-1-2009 12:50 AM | Show all posts

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poco-poco!
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Post time 28-1-2009 01:03 AM | Show all posts
hehehe
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Post time 28-1-2009 01:52 AM | Show all posts
terus sepi ke cray ni ?
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Post time 28-1-2009 10:10 AM | Show all posts
Originally posted by bzzts at 28-1-2009 12:53 AM
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boleh buat avatar ottromen ko nih lawak siot ...
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Post time 28-1-2009 12:06 PM | Show all posts


satu kungfu utk thread nih...
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Post time 28-1-2009 05:53 PM | Show all posts
Originally posted by an2toncit at 28-1-2009 12:52 AM
terus sepi ke cray ni ?

bukan   sepi   ...   tak  mampu    masuk    pasaran   ....
nak   masuk   pasaran   ...kena   promosi   hebat
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Post time 29-1-2009 12:08 AM | Show all posts
Originally posted by mahathirGX at 28-1-2009 05:53 PM

bukan   sepi   ...   tak  mampu    masuk    pasaran   ....
nak   masuk   pasaran   ...kena   promosi   hebat


ooo buat cam cyrix dulu la....bole gak bersaing ngan intel n amd
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Post time 29-1-2009 02:20 AM | Show all posts
yang sbnrnya aku tau sbb apa Cray x laku kat sini.... dier computer server atau supercomputer.. bukan computer biasa... tu sbb dier boleh celen Intel ngan AMD... tapi mana ade org pakai Cray untuk gaming/multitasking....
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Post time 29-1-2009 03:38 AM | Show all posts
cyrix, intel, amd, ibm, cray. apa lagi processor komputer yg ada ?

ibm dulu apple amik guna utk macintosh. skrg apa nasib dia agaknya...

cray ni plak sapa guna?
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Post time 29-1-2009 10:31 AM | Show all posts

Reply #15 bzzts's post

cray rasanya intel dah ambik... jadik Intel XEON...
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Post time 29-1-2009 10:33 AM | Show all posts
Originally posted by akumirul at 29-1-2009 01:20 AM
yang sbnrnya aku tau sbb apa Cray x laku kat sini.... dier computer server atau supercomputer.. bukan computer biasa... tu sbb dier boleh celen Intel ngan AMD... tapi mana ade org pakai Cray untu ...

Kalo   sesuai    utk   supercomputer   sekali  pun   ....
masalahnya    company   mana   nak   ambik   procsser   cray  ni  ???   IBM...  HP...Acer   ?????
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Post time 29-1-2009 10:38 AM | Show all posts

Reply #17 mahathirGX's post

Cray nih keluaran sendiri jer... x de company mana2 pun ambik...

website dier ada lagi... nih dier:
http://www.cray.com/Home.aspx
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Post time 29-1-2009 10:40 AM | Show all posts
tapi supercomputer Cray skrg dah pakai processor AMD Opteron/Intel XEON...
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Post time 29-1-2009 02:39 PM | Show all posts

Reply #19 akumirul's post

bukan axion?
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