AMD officials said with the AMD efforts to improve system performance, AMD will from 2012 began to put more emphasis on integrated into mainstream graphics processor core server.
AMD product management and Workstation Manager Gina Longoria says, the future of mainstream servers in the server and CPU graphics processor integrated with, because the applications to take advantage of thousands of graphics processor core. AMD may be supplied with one server CPU and graphics processor to run parallel applications.
Considered graphics cards in science and arithmetic application in more advanced than central processing unit it. The central processing unit designed to address common computing tasks. Some servers have the graphics processing unit in high performance computing environment in conjunction with CPU performance.
For example, supercomputer vendor Appro HyperPower Cluster products provided by in the configure Intel processor cores and Nvidia graphics processor core servers separately and simultaneously run thousands of threads and tasks. Tokyo Institute of technology named Tsubame supercomputer based on Nvidia graphics processor with more than 30,000 more processor cores, provides the processing speed of 77.48 trillion floating point operations per second.
However, while most supercomputers the CPU and graphics processor in combination, however, many basic PC configuration of parallel computing capabilities for improving application performance. At present, the laptop specific multimedia tasks such as editing video directly to the graphics chip, enables the central processing unit to free word processing and think such as virus scanning. Said Longoria, AMD want into this mixed environment server.
In the next two years, the task performs a calculation using the graphics processor is still a relatively small area. bad credit repair Therefore, AMD will focus on the central processing unit and adding more cores. After a period of time, there will be more closely integrated. Longoria says, if you use a graphics processing unit for various computing started to grow, AMD may not focus on the core aspects of the central processing unit. AMD currently has one, codenamed “Interlagos” 16-core server processor. This processor is planned for launch in 2011. The server chip is based on a new chip architecture.
Longoria said that with the help of the graphics processor, including facial recognition, video, graphics, and image-intensive applications on the server performance will be improved. However, she did not for data-intensive applications such as databases with the help of the graphics processor is able to improve comment.