AMD "Zembezi

[illfindu]

Hey im looking towards the future and I'm eyeing the AMD 8 core bulldozer CPU'S coming down the line. I'v seen some source say there going to use a AM3+ Socket and im wondering if that means youll be able to toss one in a current AM3+ compatible board?
Will my current http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130297&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Motherboards+-+AMD-_-MSI-_-13130297 msi 870A Fuzion work i noticed just now that its a AM3 not a AM3+ I'm guessing that means ill need a new mother board cause the sockets are comparable?

 

[jf-amd]

Actually if you search 'top 500 supercomputers' on Wiki you'll see the current #1 spot is held by a Chinese computer, using Xeons and Fermis (Nvidia GPUs) 😛..

And if you look closely at the configuration you'll see that they are getting the flops from the fermi cards, not the CPUs. CPUs are more there as host processors to the most part.

The top 500 list in the future is going to be ruled more by GPUs because of their FLOP power. There was a lot of discussion at SC10 about this. Some even recommended changing the metric to judge. One of the biggest reasons is the sustainability of the GPU scores. Utilization is all over the board, it is mostly a peak score, but they can't sustain. I have no opinion on this, a lot of people smarter than me have said a lot about it.

 

[amdfangirl]

I do believe it has something to do with the raw power of the GPU against the GPU after a software overhead layer has been introduced, which decreases performance.

I mean like the HD 4850 was supposed to have a 1 teraflop of performance or something.

I probably am wrong, but hey.

 

[4Ryan6]

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[illfindu]

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