Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: Richard Cownie (tich.delete@this.pobox.com), August 4, 2010 11:31 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
mpx (mpx@nomail.pl) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>AMD Bobcat core is supposed to be licensable, and possible to be produced in TSMC
>fabs. Perhaps it's a good candidate for ION3?
>
Maybe. But it isn't high enough performance to satisfy
the need for good scalar FP performance for HPC.
SandyBridge with AVX, and maybe Bulldozer with integrated
GPGPU, are both going to make life tough for NVidia in
the HPC market.
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>AMD Bobcat core is supposed to be licensable, and possible to be produced in TSMC
>fabs. Perhaps it's a good candidate for ION3?
>
Maybe. But it isn't high enough performance to satisfy
the need for good scalar FP performance for HPC.
SandyBridge with AVX, and maybe Bulldozer with integrated
GPGPU, are both going to make life tough for NVidia in
the HPC market.