Beyond3D Featured ContentClassic: (Sir) Eric Demers on AMD R600
Back in the R600 launch timeframe, we had the opportunity to talk with Eric Demers (Architecture Lead for the chip) and ask him a lot of questions on a lot of very interesting subjects - while getting very detailed and honest answers back. Sounds good? Sure did back then, and still does now - Eric also contributed substantially to the interview's discussion thread, so plenty of extra goodies there.
French website PC INpact broke the news of an upcoming GPU-accelerated supercomputer, ordered by France's CEA for delivery in early 2009 from Bull. The cluster's performance confirms that GT200 will be rated at 1TFlop and that Nehalem/Bloomfield will clock up to at least 3GHz.
Something we missed with the Thanksgiving holiday last week is that
NVIDIA has publicly released the next beta version of its CUDA GPGPU
platform, which adds G92 support, performance profiling, and more
language features among other improvements.
AMD has announced the RV670-based FireStream 9170 GPGPU processor as well as the FireStream SDK. Notable are 2GB of RAM, a 775-800 MHz core clock, 500 GFLOP/s, and Brook+ (based on Brook, obviously!) as the official high-level language.
Stanford University, with assistance from AMD, have released a version of the Folding@Home client application for discrete R6-family ATI GPUs, from R600 all the way to RV670.
Professor Vijay Pande, director of Stanford's Folding@home project, has blogged that his team is demoing a new GUI and new GPU client at SuperComputing 2007.