Energy lab to run petascale computer (AMD K8L)

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Brett Davis

Energy lab to run petascale computer
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40250-1.html
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=10418101
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=22306667
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=22306861

"Indeed K8L must have a double performance FPU capable of four double
precision floating point operations per clock. By contrast, the Intel
NGA architecture can do 4 floating point ops per clock but only single
precision 32-bit ones. Good enough for most graphics, but not scientific
computing."

Looks like Intel will be back to being a distant second place again.
That 20% lead in SSE2 floating point NGA/Conroe/Merom had over todays
Athlon64 goes poof when K8L comes out.

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The little lost angel

"Indeed K8L must have a double performance FPU capable of four double
precision floating point operations per clock. By contrast, the Intel
NGA architecture can do 4 floating point ops per clock but only single
precision 32-bit ones. Good enough for most graphics, but not scientific
computing."

Looks like Intel will be back to being a distant second place again.
That 20% lead in SSE2 floating point NGA/Conroe/Merom had over todays
Athlon64 goes poof when K8L comes out.
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I don't think so Intel's going back to a distant second place. That's
quad core K8L, Conroe is dual core only so how much lead will AMD have
over that? My intuitive guess is with a K8L dual core, AMD might just
take a slim lead over the Conroe at best. Anybody can make a better
guess?
 
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