IBM shows off Power7 HPC monster
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This server node is the heart of the 1 petaflop "Blue Waters" supercomputer being installed at the University of Illinois. (That's sustained, not peak, performance.)
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AMD outlined its product roadmaps through 2011 for servers, desktops, and notebooks on Wednesday during the company's financial analysts' day at its Sunnyvale, California, headquarters.
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Bobcat will be aimed at the other end of the power and performance spectrum: ultra-thin notebooks. Designed to require less than a watt of power, Bobcat will, AMD claims, provide 90 per cent of "today's mainstream performance" in less than half of the current silicon real estate - though exactly how the company defines "mainstream performance" remained unstated.
Both the Bulldozer and Bobcat cores are being designed to be highly scalable and able to be combined with GPU circuitry and other IP assets into application-specific APUs.