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AMD Demonstrates "Teraflop In a Box"

Posted by kdawson on from the speedy-silicon dept.

UncleFluffy writes "AMD gave a sneak preview of their upcoming R600 GPU. The demo system was a single PC with two R600 cards running streaming computing tasks at just over 1 Teraflop. Though a prototype, this beats Intel to ubiquitous Teraflop machines by approximately 5 years." Ars has an article exploring why it's hard to program such GPUs for anything other than graphics applications.

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  1. Two words by paintballer1087 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Beowolf cluster.... I think that's all that needs said

  2. This reminded me of something... by Torsoboy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    1. Cut a hole in the box. 2. Put your flop in that box. 3. Make her open the box. And that's the way you do it!

  3. 5 years? by Sebastopol · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe Intel could just buy a graphics company that already has the technology demo something in 4 months. Like AMD did, again (recall their last their two biggest wins came from acquiring NexGen's intellectual property). AMD has a habit of making money by plagiarizing the work of other smaller companies they acquire. Whereas Intel apparently buys smaller companies and loses money :) :) (er, whatever they bough and sold to Marvell for a huge loss). --ducks for cover--

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