HEPiX Fall 2011 Workshop

AMD's New 16-core Opteron Processors

25 Oct 2011, 09:00

1h

Hosted by TRIUMF, SFU and the University of Victoria at the Harbour Center - Downtown Vancouver

Computing & Batch Services Computing

Speaker

David (John) Cownie (AMD)

Description

An overview of the architecture and power efficiency features of the latest 16-core processors from AMD including benchmark results for the HEP-SPEC suite –- showing the performance improvements over the current 12-core and older 6-, quad-, and dual-core processors. AMD's newest Opteron processors feature the “Bulldozer” x86 core pair compute module which is especially well-suited for modern C++ and object-based language workloads.