http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors RSS Feed for Processors en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 02:35:53 GMT 2008-05-15T02:35:53Z en-us http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/Eurotech_Intel_to_Collaborate_on_HPC_Development.html Gruppo Eurotech, an Italian company specializing in embedded solutions and computer miniaturizatrion, and Intel, the world's largest producer of chips and world leader in silicon innovation, have signed a memorandum of understanding over several years of technological collaboration. Wed, 14 May 2008 16:00:23 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/Eurotech_Intel_to_Collaborate_on_HPC_Development.html 2008-05-14T16:00:23Z http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/Revaluating_FPGAs_for_64-bit_Floating-Point_Calculations.html We now have generally available 2.5 GHz quad-core Opterons and Virtex-5 LX330, SX95T and recently announced SX240T FPGAs. In addition to this, Xilinx is releasing a new version of their floating-point cores that reduces the amount of logic and DSP slices needed for building floating-point function units. Taken together it is time to revisit Opteron floating-point performance versus FPGA performance. Thu, 15 May 2008 02:35:53 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/Revaluating_FPGAs_for_64-bit_Floating-Point_Calculations.html 2008-05-15T02:35:53Z http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/IBM_Intros_New_Cell_Blade.html Driven by growing commercial need in areas such as financial services, digital media creation and medical imaging, IBM today expanded its HPC capabilities for businesses with the introduction of the IBM BladeCenter QS22. Tue, 13 May 2008 19:26:14 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/IBM_Intros_New_Cell_Blade.html 2008-05-13T19:26:14Z http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/IBM_Shifts_Cell_to_65_nanometers.html IBM Corp. has announced the next-generation version of its Cell processor, the first specifically geared for computer servers. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:50:57 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/IBM_Shifts_Cell_to_65_nanometers.html 2008-05-13T16:50:57Z http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/Sun_Unveils_New_Quad-Core_Opteron-Based_Systems.html Sun Microsystems today announced the availability of its first Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Tue, 13 May 2008 19:37:09 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/Sun_Unveils_New_Quad-Core_Opteron-Based_Systems.html 2008-05-13T19:37:09Z http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/AMD_Announces_Organizational_Changes.html AMD announced several organizational and executive changes as part of the company's ongoing efforts to re-architect its business for sustained profitability. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:48:18 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/AMD_Announces_Organizational_Changes.html 2008-05-13T16:48:18Z http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/2_AMD_executives_Out_in_Restructuring_Amid_Slump.html Two executives have left AMD, including the head of the slumping chip maker's microprocessor division, as the company tries to engineer a dramatic turnaround to fend off larger rival Intel Corp. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:06:50 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/2_AMD_executives_Out_in_Restructuring_Amid_Slump.html 2008-05-13T16:06:50Z http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/AMD_Intros_Low-Power_Quad-Core_Opterons.html AMD introduced energy-efficient x86 server processors with four processing cores and an integrated memory controller all in a low 55-watt ACP thermal envelope. Tue, 13 May 2008 16:41:20 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/AMD_Intros_Low-Power_Quad-Core_Opterons.html 2008-05-13T16:41:20Z http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/GigOptix_Announces_Chipsets_for_Optical_Interconnect.html GigOptix announced that the HXR4104, a 4x10.3Gbps Transimpedance Limiting Amplifier (TIA/LA) and the HXT4104, the industry's lowest power 4x10.3Gbps Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VSCEL) driver are available now as a chipset Fri, 09 May 2008 18:13:26 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/GigOptix_Announces_Chipsets_for_Optical_Interconnect.html 2008-05-09T18:13:26Z http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/Compilers_and_More_Accelerating_High_Performance.html Accelerators have been receiving a lot of attention lately from high performance computing users. PGI's Michael Wolfe thinks they should be getting even more. According to him, accelerators represent a more natural platform for HPC parallelism than either the current crop of general-purpose multicore chips or the ones on the drawing board. The trick is how to program them. Thu, 08 May 2008 17:46:38 GMT http://www.hpcwire.com/topic/processors/Compilers_and_More_Accelerating_High_Performance.html 2008-05-08T17:46:38Z