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Another post from Arthur Cole where he talks about Fusion-io, OneStopSystems, and NextIO as well as trends he sees in HPC.  CLICK HERE

This is absolutely the best and most readable article about Intel and AMD market strategies in the HPC world.

click here:  —> http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3681

New World’s Fastest Supercomputer Named : Discovery News

I posted this awhile ago on my Facebook profile as a link.  In the latest version of a semiannual “Top 500″ list of supercomputers, a new machine has been crowned with the top honor… and it’s built on some interesting technology, very similar to what many are running in their own desktop computers these days.

The Cray supercomputer, Jaguar, is built off of 6-core AMD Opteron processors (very similar to the AMD “Phenom II” branded processors you can buy for your desktop), codenamed “Istanbul”.

Jaguar took the top spot away from IBM’s “Roadrunner” supercomputer, which is now at #2.  [EDIT] Hmm, the IBM Roadrunner supercomputer is a hybrid system built off of IBM PowerXCell 8i processors (like in the Sony Playstation 3) AND AMD Opteron 2-core processors.

For AMD’s own blog write-up of the story (click here)

The third Supercomputer according to the Top 500 List is getting a CPU upgrade by Cray. The AMD Quad-Core processors are being replaced by Six-Core processors without having to replace any board.

AMD’s Six-Core Opteron Powers the World’s Highest-Performance Supercomputer – X-bit labs.

Which processor powers the world’s fastest computer?

Intel?-NO

AMD

Read on…

ASRock 939A785GMH128M – 785G & S939 επεξεργαστές – ( HWBOX ) O/C on first boot
Όσοι ασχολούνται με παλιότερο hardware, είτε γιατί διασκεδάζουν bench-άροντας old-school hardware, είτε γιατί θέλουν οπωσδήποτε να χρησιμοποιήσουν παλιότερα pc components (επεξεργαστές & κάρτες γραφικών), γνωρίζουν πολύ καλά ότι η ASRock βρίσκεται δίπλα τους και τους υποστηρίζει. Μετά από πληθώρα hybrid μητρικών που διέθεταν θύρες AGP x8 και PCI-Express x16 ή DDR1 και DDR2 ταυτόχρονα, τώρα έχει στα σκαριά μια υλοποίηση που βασίζεται στο 785G chipset της AMD, όμως δέχεται S939 επεξεργαστές.[next]

Pazar payını arttırmaya çalışan AMD‘ nin 6 çekirdekli işlemcisi Opteron EE piyasaya çıktı. Daha çok sunucularda tercih edilecek olan bu işlemcinin en önemli özelliklerinden biri düşük enerji tüketimi.

40W enerji tüketimi bulunan bu işlemci, AMD‘ nin açıklamasına göre standart 4 çekirdekli işlemcilerden Watt başına %31 daha yüksek performans gösteriyor. Özellikle sunucu sahipleri için iyi bir haber çünkü bir oda dolusu sunucusu olan biri için enerji tüketimi hesaplandığında kazanılan enerjinin maliyeti ile yükseltmenin maliyeti birbirini karşılıyor. Yani yükseltmeye değer.

Opteron EE işlemciler, gelişmiş güç yönetimi sağlayan AMD-P Suite güç yönetimi özellikleriyle üretilmiş ve AMD Smart Fetch, AMD Power Cap, AMD CoolCore gibi teknolojileri barındırıyor.

AMD Sunucu ve iş istasyonları departmanı başkanı Patrick Patla‘ nın söylediğine göre AMD Opteron EE işlemciler, üreticilere güç ve performanstan ödün vermeden enerji tasarrufu sağlayacak ve üreticiler bu işlemcilerini kullanarak çok yoğun veri merkezleri oluşturabilecekler yani daha az harcayarak daha çok şey elde edecekler.

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I have tested 3 cpus,  AMD Opteron vs Intel Nehalem vs an old Intel.

model name      : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2384 (2 quad cores)
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570  @ 2.93GHz (2 quad cores, 8 cores real, 16 cores virtual, VT not enabled)
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (2 dual cores) – as 1855 in the chart
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355  @ 2.66GHz (2 quad cores)

I used UnixBench 5.1 and memory and cpu related tests such as “dhry2reg whetstone-double syscall context1 spawn execl shell1 shell8 shell16 C arithoh short int long float double dc hanoi grep sysexec”.

Each server has different amount of memory.  Speed of memory is important but size doesn’t really matter. None of the tests aims to fill the memory though when more memory added to servers they tend to get slower, though it is such a small difference that it can be ignored.

In the first test only one instance of unixbench runs. In the seconds test, for AMD 8, for Nehalem 16, for old intel (1855) 4. (Nehalem gets very similar result for 8 instances so I didn’t include in the chart.)

AMD claims six-core Opteron performance lead over Intel Xeon

Just last month, AMD began shipping its first 6-core, 45 nm Opteron server CPUs with “Istanbul” architecture, with the top-of-the-line 2.6 GHz, 4- and 8-way 8435 SE selling for $2,649 in 1,000-unit quantities (“trays”). Perhaps ahead of schedule, yesterday AMD cut the tape for a 2.8 GHz 4- and 8-way model 8439 SE model that one-ups its own June release. Its tray price: $2,649.

And while a new entry on the high end usually triggers a price drop for existing models, it may yet be too soon for AMD to drop the price of the 2.6 GHz model below its June price. In an interview with Betanews, AMD’s Opteron product manager Steve Demski said that won’t be much of a problem, since in this economy and with the current state of data center architecture, high wattage and higher performance are less of a factor than ever before.

“In general, I won’t say that the SE is a dying breed, but it’s a small percentage of our overall business. We still do have some of these high-profile customers that do want that extra performance, and they’re willing to pay more for it. But as a percentage of our business, I want to say it’s less than five percent,” admitted Demski. “Not to say that it doesn’t matter to the people who want that performance; it does.”

AMD’s strategy, revealed last May, is to address what it believes to be four market segments: a mainstream and three offshoots. The high-performance and low-power divisions are obvious, but then AMD is gambling on a lower power market segment, for server farms that are truly dedicated to “going green.” Yesterday’s releases address the “very high performance” and the “generally lower power” shades of these two more obvious market sub-segments, with the 2.1 GHz six-core, 4- and 8-way, low-power 8425 HE priced at $1,514. Using AMD’s Average CPU power metric (ACP), the 8425 HE is AMD’s 55W part, while the 8439 SE runs at 105W ACP.

In the two-socket bracket, AMD introduced a high-performance 2439 SE, which has the same power and performance profile as the 8439 SE, only priced at $1,019. The 8425’s counterpart on the 2-socket side is the 2425 HE priced at $523, followed even lower down by a 2.0 GHz 2423 HE priced at $455. Meanwhile, the “older” 2.2 GHz 2427 HE remains at $455.

There might not be much cause for complaint here, however. Competitor Intel’s most recent price list (PDF available here) continues to show not one six-core processor in its Xeon 7400 series lower in tray price than $2,301.

In SPECpower_ssj_2008 benchmark tests AMD conducted on the standard six-core 2.6 GHz 75W Opteron 2435 introduced last month and the 2425 HE 55W at 2.1 GHz introduced yesterday (again using AMD’s metric, which doesn’t align with Intel’s Thermal Design Point or TDP), both processors yielded the same score of 1228 at 100% load point. “But the power consumption of the HE system is 49 watts lower [221W versus 270W] than the power consumption in the standard system,” remarked Demski. “This is the exact same platform; we swapped CPUs and took the measurement again.

“So you’re saving 49W per 2P system. Let’s do some math here: If you’ve got 49W of system [savings] and you have a rack of servers, you’ve got 42 1U servers in that rack, that’s over 2,000 watts of power you’re saving by going to the HE model. If your cost per watt is $5 — which I would argue is conservative — you’re saving $10,000 a year on that one rack. And you can imagine the cloud guys — they don’t build by rack, they build by container, which has 5,000 or more servers per container.”

On the other side of the equation, server admins and IT professionals will be watching the benchmark charts to see if AMD’s latest claim is proven and officially filed. Though the SPEC organization does not show an official claim this afternoon, AMD is claiming that a four-way Tyan Transport TX46 server with 64 GB of RAM, loaded with four 2.8 GHz Opteron 8439 SE CPUs, posted a peak performance SPEC_int_rate2006 score of 417.

Compare this against the 274 score that AMD’s quad-core “Shanghai” series 3.1 GHz quad-core Opteron 8393 SE posted, and you might file these results under “D” for “Duh.” Here, 150% the processor provides 150% the performance — what’s new with that? The first bullet point this 417 score (if it holds up) should provide is the fact that the 8439 uses the 8393’s same power envelope; you can swap out the quad-core with a six-core and not suffer a power cost.

But bullet point #2 has a lethal tip to it, and again if the score holds up, it will be extremely impressive news, and the first time in years that AMD can submit a performance score to SPEC without accompanying it with lower-power explanations and best-case-scenario apologies. According to SPEC’s latest list of official scores, a four-way IBM System x 3850 M2 loaded with four 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon X7460 processors — Intel’s highest performer in its six-core line, selling for $2,729 — posted a 294 peak score on the same test. That’s the highest-performing X7460 in the list; a Dell PowerEdge R900, a Fujitsu Siemens Primergy RX600 S4, and an HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with a quartet of X7460s all posted peak scores of 291.

Maybe the Opteron SE series only sells to less than 5% of AMD’s customer base, according to Steve Demski. But whenever AMD boasts a performance lead (and it’s backed up by independent tests, which have yet to be revealed), it always manages to make a dent in 100% of Intel’s customers’ minds.