AMD claims its new specialist high-performance processor the Firestream 9250,
is the first to process more than a more than a thousand billion
single-precision floating point operations (one teraflop) per second.
The Firestream, announced at the
International
Supercomputing Conference, is designed to accelerate critical algorithms in
high-performance computing (HPC) applications and exploits the graphics
processing expertise AMD
gained when it purchased ATI.
The Firestream 9250, which occupies a single PCI slot, uses less than 150
watts to deliver an efficiency of up to eight gigaflops per watt.
Rival Nvidia has been promoting the use of its graphics processors for
similar tasks, with the aid of a C-based
language called Cuda.
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