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The Need for Acceleration Technologies to Achieve Cost-Effective Supercomputing Performance for Advanced Applications

Category: Data Management, Servers and Server OS

Tags: x86, research and development, software development, software

Overview Supercomputing has become an essential tool for many users, including those working in the scientific, engineering, biomedical, and financial disciplines. Although processing capabilities continue to advance, in many cases demand is increasing at an even faster rate. Simulation and analysis problems - once intractable due to computational limitations - have become possible. Supercomputing technology has evolved from highly specialized and custom circuitry to commodity circuits based largely upon x86 instruction-compatible processing hardware. Leveraging economies of scale lowers costs of production, amortizes research and development, and simplifies software development, as more programmers are familiar with the technologies. Indeed, many supercomputers listed on the tOP500 supercomputers site (http:// www.top500.org) are aggregations of commodity processing units and parts.

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Publisher: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Feb 15, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Supercomputers, High Performance Computing

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