The folks at Gateway have reportedly let slip information about the upcoming AMD Interlagos (codename: Bulldozer) Opteron chips. Though the report was quickly dispelled by John Fruehe, the Internet none the less has lit up with the news. There really isn't particularly new information as it has been known for some time that there would be High-Clocked 8 cores, mid-clocked 12 cores and lower-clocked 16 core chips in the first iteration.

The G34 8 cores weren't originally planned by AMD but feedback from vendors pushed them to release these chips for those application that enjoy higher clock speed over more cores. Because of the NDA situation, we can't post the info here but we can tell you that the info is readily available using Google.

Today marks a new feature here at the Zone. Hardware Roundup. These features are not reviews per se but showcase the newest gear to pair with your spanking new A-Series or soon to come FX-Series.

So without further ado.

 

SATA III SSD Roundup

HotHardware is featuring new SSDs from the major vendors such as Corsair, OCZ, Patriot. Read all about them here.

 

Corsair Introduces Limited-Edition 1.5V 8GB Dominator GT Kit

HotHardware is up again with a look at the new 2133MHz DDR3 kit from Corsair.

 

ThermalTake Releases New Level 10 GT LCS

An dof course the LCS stands for Liquid Cooling. Mosey over to their website for drool worthy images.

 

ASRock Jumps on Zambezi with Fatal1ty in Mind

Yes, Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel got the FX itch and teamed up with ASRock and AMD to create the 990FX-based mobo designed for Zambezi AM3+ chips. Check it out.

 

PowerColor Unleashes the Radeon HD6870 X2

The people at PureOverclock have taken a look at the new 6870 X2 from AMD. Mosey on over and view their results.

GE Global Research a wholly-owned subsidiary of GE had recently purchased a rack of the new XE6m System from Cray which houses up to 130,000 MagnyCours Opteron. This midrange system will enabble GE to "run more complex simulations in order to explore multi-physics challenges, gain higher fidelity insights and pursue areas of science and product development that could not be simulated using standard commodity clusters."

The Cray XE6m system, the midrange version of the Cray XE6 supercomputer, is optimized to support scalable application workloads in a cost-effective system.

A Cray spekesman said:

"It is clear that scalable supercomputing is extremely important to GE Global Research, and we are very pleased that this highly-respected organization has added a Cray XE6m system to its portfolio of HPC services," said Barry Bolding, vice president of Cray's product division. "The addition of GE Global Research to our HPC customer base is reflective of Cray's early history, dating back to Cray Research, when our company had a strong commercial and manufacturing market presence. We have worked hard over the last few years to design, develop and introduce new lines of supercomputing systems, such as the Cray XE6m, that have the features, functions and reliability that is demanded by customers in the manufacturing space. We are excited that GE Global Research has turned to Cray and we are honored to have them as a flagship customer."

This is a continuation of AMDs successes in the HPC arena and looks o be continued with the Interlagos versions of Cray's systems, including the new XK6 Hybrid CPU\GPU cluster.

 

Click here for more

Cray Inc.©, maker of High Performance Computer systems recently launched the XMT Massivley MultuiThreaded System based on AMDs Torrenza initiative and using Opteron (940) sockets to house 500 MHz 64-bit Cray Threadstorm Processors. These high performance accelerators have 128 HW Threads per core and support up to 8 GB of RAM per socket with 96 CPUs per cabinet (max), 8024 CPUs per system (max).

From the Site:

The Cray XMT system was architected to leverage Cray's MPP system design to create a scalable, reliable and economical multithreaded supercomputing platform. The design is based on a Cray MPP compute blade but utilizes AMD Torrenza technology to populate the AMD Opteron sockets with custom Cray Threadstorm™ chips developed for multithreaded processing. A single Cray Threadstorm processor can sustain 128 simultaneous threads and is connected with up to 8 GB of memory that is globally accessible by any other Cray Threadstorm processor in the system.

 

Click here to read more or here to read the WhitePaper(PDF)

According to iSuppli the battle for silicon real estate has switched from clock speed to core count and 2015 will see nearly half of all mobile systems sporting quad core chips. Both AMD and Intel have quad core chips and nVidia is following closely with their new Kal-El ARM-based SOC (system on a chip).

 

After making major inroads into the desktop market, quad-core PC microprocessors now are set to conquer the notebook segment, with about half of the mobile computers shipped in 2015 expected to employ these advanced chips, according to the new IHS iSuppli report entitled “Desktop and Notebook PC Technology Penetration Forecast,” from information and analysis provider IHS (NYSE: IHS).

 

Click here for the full story.