http://www.anandtech.com/show/5503/understanding-amds-roadmap-new- direction/2
AMD's new roadmap basically says they stop high performance CPU development. GPU line will continue also inside cpu's integrated. Total monopoly for intel for applications needing CPU's as it seems. That might that companies that need some more CPU crunching no longer can build cheap 4 socket machines that have good performance. Knowing usually the topend AMD 4 socket system used to be just above or under $10k, with doube the core count normally spoken of what you'd expect at a 4 socket system, making it, to some extend similar to 8 socket system (be it with very low clocked cpu's), that will no longer perform well. Intel's 8 socket solution at Oracle, the latest one, usually is around $200k a machine. So this means that clustering is only cheap choice then. Comments? _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
