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In occasione di un conferenza tenutasi a San Francisco, AMD (NYSE: AMD) ha mostrato una piattaforma Accelerated Computing implementata sotto forma di singolo sistema in grado di oltrepassare la barriera del Teraflops di potenza di calcolo, cioè 1 trilione (mille miliardi) di operazioni floating point al secondo.

La nuova piattaforma, denominata “Teraflops in a Box”, è dotata di una versione standard del sistema operativo Microsoft Windows XP Professional e sfrutta la tecnologia dei processori dual-core AMD Opteron insieme a due stream processor di nuova generazione AMD R600.

Questo traguardo rappresenta un incremento di dieci volte rispetto alle piattaforme server ad alte prestazioni attualmente disponibili, che si limitano a circa 100 miliardi di calcoli al secondo.

San Francisco — Feb. 28, 2007 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today showcased a single-system, Accelerated Computing platform that breaks the teraflop computing barrier.  Organizations are ultimately expected to be able to apply this technology to a wide range of scientific, medical, business and consumer computing applications.  At a press event in San Francisco, AMD demonstrated a “Teraflop in a Box” system running a standard version of Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional that harnessed the power of AMD Opteron™ dual-core processor technology and two next-generation AMD R600 Stream Processors capable of performing more than 1 trillion floating-point calculations per second using a general “multiply-add” (MADD) calculation. This achievement represents a ten-fold performance increase over today’s high-performance server platforms, which deliver approximately 100 billion calculations per second.

 “The technology AMD demonstrated today is just one example of how the ‘New’ AMD is changing the game for our industry,” said Dave Orton, executive vice president of visual media business at AMD. “Today, teraflop computing capability is largely reserved for the supercomputing space.  But now that “Teraflop-in-a-Box” is a reality, AMD can deliver an order of magnitude increase in performance.”

Today also marks an important milestone on the road to Accelerated Computing, AMD’s vision for specialized “co-processors” interoperating with x86 microprocessors to provide efficient and flexible acceleration for specific applications. Platforms based on the same technology found in the “Teraflop-in-a-Box” demonstration should benefit a wide range of scientific and commercial  applications, including energy, financial, environmental, medical, scientific, defense and security organizations around the world by equipping them with the intensive computing power they require to conduct research and deliver solutions significantly faster than previously possible.

What is a Teraflop?

In the supercomputing field, “flops” is an acronym meaning FLoating point Operations Per Second, a measure of a computer’s ability to perform floating point calculations. A teraflop is one trillion floating point operations per second.  Stream processing technology helps raise the bar in this regard by leveraging sophisticated, massively parallel processors, generally used for 3D graphics applications, to solve real-world problems.

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