AMD has presented a new concept computer called “Teraflop in a Box” and the name really says it all. AMD claims that you will be able to create a small supercomputer with 1 Teraflop capacity in the form of a regular PC. The system is based on a rather ordinary dual-processor system with AMD’s dual-core Opteron processors, but that is hardly enough to reach 1 Teraflop. The key is namely AMD’s coming R600 graphics circuit and it has equipped the card with two of these Streaming processors. In other words, focusing on other things than 3D.
“The technology AMD demonstrated today is just one example of how the ‘New’ AMD is changing the game for our industry,” said Dave Orton, executive vice president of visual media business at AMD. “Today, teraflop computing capability is largely reserved for the supercomputing space. But now that ‘Teraflop-in-a-Box’ is a reality, AMD can deliver an order of magnitude increase in performance.”
Both AMD and NVIDIA are venturing for a broad functionality for its new graphics circuits and there is no doubt that there is some mighty performance to gain for those using this the right way.
