AMD Delivers World's First Server GPU With Industry-Leading 32GB Memory for High Performance Compute - Seite 3

"We have been developing a fully-parallel computational tool based on the AMD GPU heterogeneous computing platform and OpenCL," said Omid Mahahadi, co-founder and director, Geomechanica Inc. "This tool accurately captures the complex physics of massive mines plus oil and gas fields rapidly and reliably. Thanks to the impressive 32GB of memory of the new cards, we expect to run computations on massive data structures containing tens of millions of data elements. The combination of rapid double-precision operations with the large memory capacity enables accurate, detailed, and reliable computations. A similar performance using CPUs would likely require much higher capital and maintenance costs. Moving forward, we plan to take advantage of the recent features of the OpenCL 2.0 open API to further enhance the performance of our software."

To address future needs for HPC development, AMD FirePro™ S9170 server GPU supports the latest version of OpenCL™ while ready for the OpenMP and OpenACC developer tools with planned availability in Q3 2015.

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1 AMD FirePro™ S9170 delivers up to 2.62 TFLOPS peak double precision floating point performance. Nvidia's highest performing single-GPU server card in the market as of May 2015 is the Tesla K40 with up to 1.43 TFLOPS peak double precision performance. Nvidia's highest performing dual-GPU server card in the market as of May 2015 is the Tesla K80, with up to 1.87 TFLOPS of peak double precision performance. Visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-servers.html for Nvidia product specs. FP-132