High five from AMD: New supercomputer GPU maxes out at 5.07 TFLOPS [ Thu Aug 7 2014]

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Fujitsu takes next-gen HPC chip on the road
Exascale powerhouse on the way
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/07/fujitsu_takes_nextgen_hpc_chip_on_the_road/

Fujitsu is getting ready to tout its next supercomputer silicon at the
upcoming Hot Chips conference, a follow-up to the first peek given in
June.

The silicon the outfit plans for next-generation big iron, the SPARC64
Xlfx, is Fujitsu's hope for exascale computing: a 32-core, 1 Tflop
(double precision) / 2 Tflop (single precision) monster designed to
work with the Tofu2 optical interconnect.

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High five from AMD: New supercomputer GPU maxes out at 5.07 TFLOPS
FirePro scorcher nips ahead of Nvidia's Tesla
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/06/amd_s9150_s9050_gpus/

AMD has upped the ante in its battle with Nvidia for the data center
and high-performance computing (HPC) markets, with the launch of two
new GPU cards for servers.

The company's new big gun is the FirePro S9150 card, which maxes out at
a blistering 5.07 TFLOPS peak single-precision floating-point
performance and 2.53 TFLOPS peak double-precision performance.

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HGST brings PCM to flash show, STUNS world+dog with 3 MILLION IOPS
Wrong tech for Flash Memory Summit - but damn, it's good
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/05/hgst_changes_phase_for_3_million_iops/

In a terrific demo of the wrong technology for the Flash Memory Summit,
HGST is showing a PCIe-connected Phase Change Memory device running at
three million IOPS with a 1.5 microsecs read latency.

Phase Change Memory (PCM) stores binary digits as differing resistance
levels by changing the state, or phase, of the chalcogenide material
they are made with from amorphous to crystalline and back again.

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UTAS 13,000 Gflop NECTAR node live
National research cloud expands
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/30/utas_13000_gflop_nectar_node_live/

The University of Tasmania has flicked the switch on its new node of
the national NECTAR research cloud, under an $8.75 million
collaboration with the CSIRO and the Australian Antarctic Division.

Its node, which has been progressively rolled out since May 2014, has
21 Dell AMD Opteron-based C6145 machines with a total 2,668 processors
delivering 13,000 Gflops connecting to NECTAR, and another 20 C6145s
running CEPH for the UTAS user base.

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