{"id":551703,"date":"2007-03-06T00:43:04","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T00:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551703-amd-solution-breaks-teraflop-barrier.html"},"modified":"2007-03-06T00:43:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T00:43:04","slug":"amd-solution-breaks-teraflop-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551703-amd-solution-breaks-teraflop-barrier.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD solution &#8216;breaks teraflop barrier&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Organisations are ultimately expected to be able to apply this technology to a wide range of scientific, medical, business and consumer computing applications.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">At a press event in San Francisco, AMD demonstrated a \u201cTeraflop in a Box\u201d system running a standard version of Microsoft Windows XP Professional that harnessed the power of AMD Opteron dual-core processor technology and two next-generation AMD R600 Stream Processors said to be capable of performing more than 1 trillion floating-point calculations per second using a general \u201cmultiply-add\u201d (MADD) calculation. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This achievement is claimed to represent a ten-fold performance increase over today\u2019s high-performance server platforms, which deliver approximately 100 billion calculations per second.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThe technology AMD demonstrated is just one example of how the &#8216;New\u2019 AMD is changing the game for our industry,\u201d says Dave Orton, executive vice-president of visual media business at AMD. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cToday, teraflop computing capability is largely reserved for the supercomputing space. But now that \u201cTeraflop-in-a-Box\u201d is a reality, AMD can deliver an order of magnitude increase in performance.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=68286\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has showcased a single-system, Accelerated Computing platform that is said to have broken the teraflop computing barrier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}