U.S. Government Awards AMD Contract to pursue Exascale computing

[nicehat]

 

 

 

 

 

AMD was selected for an award of $3.1 million for a research project associated with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Extreme-Scale Computing Research and Development Program, known as "DesignForward." The DOE award is an expansion of work started as part of another two-year award AMD received in 2012 called "FastForward." The FastForward award aims to accelerate the research and development of processor and memory technologies needed to support extreme-scale computing. The DesignForward award supports the research of the interconnect architectures and technologies needed to support the data transfer capabilities in extreme-scale computing environments.

 

DesignForward is a jointly funded collaboration between the DOE Office of Science and the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to accelerate the research and development of critical technologies needed for extreme-scale computing, on the path toward Exascale computing. Exascale supercomputers are expected to be capable of performing computation hundreds of times faster than today's fastest computers, with only slightly higher power utilization. Exascale supercomputers are designed to break through the current limitations of today's supercomputers by dramatically reducing the length of run time required to perform calculations and improving the capability to perform detailed simulations, modeling, and analyses of complex systems.

 

So what is Exascale? Wikipedia says its a computing system capable of at least one exaFLOP. One exaflops is a thousand petaflops or a quintillion, 10^18, floating point operations per second...

 

Id like to see the heatsink that goes on that baby

 

 

 

 

http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/us-government-awards-amd-2013nov18.aspx

[Altecice]

Dont like how there logo is shown in Nvidia colours

 

But grats to them, hopefully they can use some of that research to put into there own next-gen GPU/CPU/APU's

[FloRolf]

Dont like how there logo is shown in Nvidia colours

Their logo actually is green.

[Joshyy]

Their logo actually is green.

 

It's actually black

 

http://www.amd.com/Style%20Library/Images/rebrand/logo.png

(AMDs logo on there website)

[qwertywarrior]

It's actually black

 

http://www.amd.com/Style%20Library/Images/rebrand/logo.png

(AMDs logo on there website)

the original is black letters Green symbol

[ZeroLogic]

the original is black letters Green symbol

Pretty sure that's it.

[SOLO_AVENGER]

the original is black letters Green symbol

Yep, that is the original and it is the one on my AMD CPU packaging!

[SOLO_AVENGER]

Yep, that is the original and it is the one on my AMD CPU packaging!

Well there is 2 on my CPU packaging. There is a small black AMD logo on the back and a larger green AMD logo on the side!

[TechFan@ic]

Dont like how there logo is shown in Nvidia colours

 

But grats to them, hopefully they can use some of that research to put into there own next-gen GPU/CPU/APU's

AMD was founded more than 20 years before Nvidia and been using the green arrow logo ever since the company's inception.

[JayD]

This is not surprising considering how nVidia gimped their consumer-grade cards' compute performance after the GTX500 series. Sadly, with the 200 series, AMD seems to be following nVidia's lead and lowered their double precision compute performance as well. Good for the companies, bad for the consumers.

[qwertywarrior]

i like how this thread turned into a debate about what the AMD logo originally looked like

[TheMissxu]

ATI was red.

[JayD]

i like how this thread turned into a debate about what the AMD logo originally looked like

 

I stayed on topic! Although compute performance and government contracts aren't exactly the most exciting things to discuss....

[ForsakenLive]

Logo discussion, they use both black and green, most of the products carry the green arrow. The guy who mentioned Nvidia doesn't know AMD has been using this logo much longer.

Real discussion, I hope AMD uses this as an opportunity to develop further technologies that one day could be accessible to the consumer. Every job is a chance to learn and develop.

Nonsense discussion, Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, Nuclear NSA is coming!

[nicehat]

I guess no one cares about exascale computing? It's implications on tomorrow's supercomputers? Better weather prediction, stock market analysis and predictive algorithms? Scientific progress?

Nope

Logos

[JayD]

I guess no one cares about exascale computing? It's implications on tomorrow's supercomputers? Better weather prediction, stock market analysis and predictive algorithms? Scientific progress? Nope Logos

 

To be fair, the majority of the people on this forum are mostly gamers (all they care about is how many frames x card renders in y game) and know nothing about super computing in financial anaylysis, research similations, or anything else related. An active forum dedicated to more technical, or non-gaming in general, aspects of hardware would be so great.

[7850OC]

Supercomputer APU :lol: yey

 

 

intel... who is intel... what is that strange word that i can not remember ? :rolleyes: