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AMD Announces FirePro S10000
Kicking off this week is the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known by its shortened name: SC. This year’s conference takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah, with SC12 being host to a number of product announcements. All of the major CPU and GPU vendors will be there, as will Anand, with the first major announcement of the day coming from AMD’s GPU division.
This being a supercomputing conference, AMD’s announcement of course is all about computing. AMD and NVIDIA have both made it clear that they desire to extend their GPU business into the high performance computing (HPC) space, with GPUs being a strong fit for certain workloads by offering a very high level performance for their price and relatively low power consumption. With Graphics Core Next and Kepler, AMD and NVIDIA have further refined both their hardware and software stacks to make them suitable for HPC users, and with the right tools finally in hand the SC conference has become an increasingly important venue for the two companies. As the largest North American supercomputing conference is the ideal place to announce and show off these wares to prospective buyers, particularly those who may not yet be intimately familiar with the capabilities of the latest generation of GPUs.
So what is AMD showing off at SC12? Having already launched their GCN-powered FirePro S cards in August, AMD is serving up a new member of the FirePro S family to the SC12 audience: the FirePro S10000. With the FirePro S9000 already positioning itself as AMD’s top single-GPU card for servers, AMD has gone bigger for the S10000; much bigger. Intending to push total performance and power efficiency as far as they can take it, AMD is launching their first dual-GPU FirePro card.
Kicking off this week is the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known by its shortened name: SC. This year’s conference takes place in Salt Lake City, Utah, with SC12 being host to a number of product announcements. All of the major CPU and GPU vendors will be there, as will Anand, with the first major announcement of the day coming from AMD’s GPU division.
This being a supercomputing conference, AMD’s announcement of course is all about computing. AMD and NVIDIA have both made it clear that they desire to extend their GPU business into the high performance computing (HPC) space, with GPUs being a strong fit for certain workloads by offering a very high level performance for their price and relatively low power consumption. With Graphics Core Next and Kepler, AMD and NVIDIA have further refined both their hardware and software stacks to make them suitable for HPC users, and with the right tools finally in hand the SC conference has become an increasingly important venue for the two companies. As the largest North American supercomputing conference is the ideal place to announce and show off these wares to prospective buyers, particularly those who may not yet be intimately familiar with the capabilities of the latest generation of GPUs.
So what is AMD showing off at SC12? Having already launched their GCN-powered FirePro S cards in August, AMD is serving up a new member of the FirePro S family to the SC12 audience: the FirePro S10000. With the FirePro S9000 already positioning itself as AMD’s top single-GPU card for servers, AMD has gone bigger for the S10000; much bigger. Intending to push total performance and power efficiency as far as they can take it, AMD is launching their first dual-GPU FirePro card.
AMD FirePro S Series Specification Comparison |