Kategorie: Pressemitteilungen

AMD Mobile “Carrizo” Family of APUs Designed to Deliver Significant Leap in Performance, Energy Efficiency in 2015

2015 AMD Mobi­le Road­map Adds “Car­ri­zo” and “Carrizo‑L” SoCs to APU Lin­e­up SINGAPORE — (Mar­ket­wired) — 11/20/14 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today at its Future of Com­pu­te event announ­ced the addi­ti­on of its first high per­for­mance sys­­tem-on-a-chip (SoC), code­na­med “Car­ri­zo”, and a main­stream SoC code­na­med “Carrizo‑L” as part of the company’s 2015 AMD Mobi­le APU (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

NEC Begins Developing Next-Generation Vector Supercomputer

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 18 — NEC Cor­po­ra­ti­on has announ­ced that it has star­ted deve­lo­ping a next-gene­ra­ti­on vec­tor super­com­pu­ter. This new model will be the suc­ces­sor to the SX-ACE super­com­pu­ter. With this next-gene­ra­ti­on vec­tor machi­ne, NEC aims to achie­ve a rack per­for­mance that is more than 10 times grea­ter than the cur­rent model, and a maxi­mum sys­tem per­for­mance that is more than 100 times grea­ter, resul­ting in an impro­ve­ment of pro­ces­sing per­for­mance to tens of peta­flops. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Khronos Updates OpenCL and SYCL Specifications for Heterogeneous Parallel Programming

Novem­ber 18th, 2014, – The Khro­nos™ Group today announ­ced the rati­fi­ca­ti­on and public release of updated Open­CL™ 2.0 and Pro­vi­sio­nal SYCL™ 1.2 spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons. The new spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons inte­gra­te feed­back from the deve­lo­per com­mu­ni­ty, ali­gn with the latest C++ deve­lo­p­ments, and increase imple­men­ta­ti­on con­sis­ten­cy for impro­ved por­ta­bi­li­ty of hete­ro­ge­neous par­al­lel appli­ca­ti­ons. The latest Open­CL and SYCL spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons are open, royal­ty-free and available at www.khronos.org/opencl/ and www.khronos.org/opencl/sycl. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD and PathScale Join the OpenACC Standards Group

NEW ORLEANS, La., Nov. 17 — The Open­ACC stan­dards group today announ­ced that Advan­ced Micro Devices (AMD) and PathSca­le, Inc., have joi­n­ed the orga­niza­ti­on, alig­ning with 18 other mem­bers and sup­port­ers world­wi­de to dri­ve the deve­lo­p­ment of appli­ca­ti­ons for acce­le­ra­tor-enab­led super­com­pu­ters, clus­ters and other high per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) sys­tems. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Applied Micro Teams with Red Hat and Cirrascale to Deliver X‑Gene-Based Cluster to LLNL

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 17 — Appli­ed Micro Cir­cuits Cor­po­ra­ti­on, today announ­ced col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with Red Hat and Cir­ras­ca­le to deli­ver a high per­for­mance com­pu­ting (HPC) clus­ter based on the world’s first ARM 64-bit X‑Gene Ser­ver on a Chip to Law­rence Liver­mo­re Natio­nal Labo­ra­to­ry. This clus­ter will be tes­ted and eva­lua­ted as a plat­form for HPC and Big Data tech­no­lo­gies. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Cray to Explore Alternative Processor Technologies for Supercomputing

SEATTLE, WA and NEW ORLEANS, LA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 11/17/14 — At the 2014 Super­com­pu­ting Con­fe­rence in New Orleans, Loui­sia­na, glo­bal super­com­pu­ter lea­der Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announ­ced the Com­pa­ny is eva­lua­ting alter­na­ti­ve pro­ces­sor design points, inclu­ding the poten­ti­al use of 64-bit ARM® and other power and per­for­mance effi­ci­ent pro­ces­sing tech­no­lo­gies for its super­com­pu­ters and data ana­ly­tics sys­tems. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

8GB für die perfekte 4K-Auflösung: XFX stellt AMD Radeon R9 290x mit doppeltem Speicher vor

Mön­chen­glad­bach, 06. Novem­ber 2014 – Ins­be­son­de­re gra­fik­las­ti­ge Spie­le pro­fi­tie­ren von mehr Spei­cher zusam­men mit einer schnel­len GPU. Denn so kön­nen kom­ple­xe Berech­nun­gen kom­plett inner­halb der Gra­fik­kar­te durch­ge­führt wer­den, ohne dass die die rest­li­che Hard­ware vie­le Daten nach­lie­fern muss. Aus die­sem Grund stat­tet XFX sei­ne High-End-Gra­fik­kar­te mit dop­pelt so viel Spei­cher aus: Die XFX AMD Rade­on R9 290x gibt es als wei­te­re Vari­an­te ab sofort mit 8GB schnel­lem GDDR5 Spei­cher. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD Launches Exclusive Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth Game Bundle With AMD Radeon R9 290 Series Graphics Cards

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 11/06/14 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced that qua­li­fy­ing purcha­ses from par­ti­ci­pa­ting retailers(1) of an AMD Rade­on™ R9 295X2, R9 290X or R9 290 gra­phics card will be eli­gi­ble for a com­pli­men­ta­ry copy of 2K’s Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »