Kategorie: Pressemitteilungen

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 »

UL Signals Strategic Expansion into Performance Benchmarking Services with Futuremark Acquisition

UL, a glo­bal safe­ty sci­ence lea­der, today announ­ced the acqui­si­ti­on of Future­mark, the mar­ket lea­ding pro­vi­der of per­for­mance bench­mar­king soft­ware. Future­mark, a pri­va­te­ly held com­pa­ny based in Fin­land, deve­lo­ps the world’s most wide­ly used bench­marks for desk­top com­pu­ters, note­books, tablets and smart pho­nes. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

Forrest Norrod Joins AMD as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom Business

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 10/27/14 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced that For­rest Nor­rod (49) has joi­n­ed the com­pa­ny as seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger of AMD’s Enter­pri­se, Embedded and Semi-Cus­tom (EESC) busi­ness group, report­ing to Pre­si­dent and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. Nor­rod will be respon­si­ble for mana­ging all aspects of stra­tegy, busi­ness manage­ment, engi­nee­ring, and sales for AMD’s EESC busi­ness. He replaces Dr. Su, who has held the posi­ti­on on an inte­rim basis sin­ce July. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »

AMD Radeon Supercharges Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth With Mantle Graphics API

SUNNYVALE, CA — (Mar­ket­wired) — 10/24/14 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today joins Fira­xis Games in cele­bra­ting the release of Sid Meier’s Civi­liza­ti­on®: Bey­ond Earth™, which fea­tures day-one sup­port for AMD’s Man­t­le gra­phics API to enable top gam­ing per­for­mance for AMD Rade­on™ gra­phics cus­to­mers. (…) Wei­ter­le­sen »