Comments on: AMD wants you to build your hardware solution around their processor

By: DRC and Cray working to integrate FPGAs at HyperTransport speed | insideHPC

DRC and Cray working to integrate FPGAs at HyperTransport speed | insideHPC — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:56:19 +0000

[...] From HPCwire today we learn that DRC has announced the RPU110-L200, its new reconfigurable processing unit. This DRC solution integrates with the processor directly using AMD’s HyperTransport link through AMD’s Torrenza interface announced back in January. SRC announced a similar approach in June. DRC’s RPU110–L200 module plugs directly into an open processor socket in a multi-way AMD Opteron system to provide direct access to adjacent double data-rate (DDR) memory and Opteron processors at HyperTransport speed and nanosecond latency. This tight coupling between the central processing unit (CPU) and memory eliminates bandwidth and latency issues and provides a general-purpose system with supercomputer capability by running computations in hardware. [...]

By: SRC reconfigurable processors come to AMD | insideHPC

SRC reconfigurable processors come to AMD | insideHPC — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:18:50 +0000

[...] SRC Computers announced yesterday that they’ll be supporting AMD’s Torrenza initiative with their processor accelerator solutions. Recall that Torrenza is AMD’s platform for letting 3rd party vendors integrate tightly with it’s processors using HyperTransport. [...]

By: Intel sharing the love | insideHPC

Intel sharing the love | insideHPC — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:33:51 +0000

[...] In a move that follows what AMD has done with Torrenza (which we mentioned here), Intel announced at the last IDF it had signed up Xilinx and Altera to make products that fit into Intel sockets. …The idea is that high performance computing types, oil and gas firms and financial services companies can program the FPGAs to handle specific software loads and speed up the performance of their code. [...]

By: The AMD Stream Processor | InsideHPC

The AMD Stream Processor | InsideHPC — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:28:50 +0000

[...] You add the Stream Processor in an existing system via PCI Express along with up to a gigabyte of memory. Oddly, it doesn’t connect via the Torrenza interface. The chip on the board has 48 cores, and ATM claims it can deliver 375 GFLOPS. [...]