The Holland Computing Center at the University of Nebraska has tripled its computing power in a grid/cluster system just by replacing dual core CPUs with Quad Core CPUs.
Even after considerable delays, Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) quad-core Barcelona chip becomes accessible to you and me after being released in April, it can not rest. It will have play catch up to Intel again as six-core processor was announced. (Intel revealed that a six-core processor, Dunnington will be available in the second half of this year.)Although AMD initially planned to release the Barcelona at the end of 2007, AMD held back after discovering a problems at hig workloads. Instead of fixing or patching things at higher level, AMD decided to fix it at the Silicon level giving users a better performing trouble free computing.
tag: AMD Barcelona, The Holland Computing Center, quad-core Barcelona, Intel Dunnington
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