[Beowulf] What happened to AMD GPU?

Douglas Eadline deadline at eadline.org
Wed Mar 4 13:03:40 PST 2015


> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Douglas Eadline <deadline at eadline.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> The one thing NVidia did right was port/support popular
>> applications to CUDA (Amber comes to mind). I don't see
>> how AMD can compete in this space if they don't do the
>> same thing, but do it for their APU Opteron-X processors
>> using HSA  (should they come out with some heftier models)
>
> Small clarification -
> I do believe there will eventually be HPC capable APU, but "HSA" is an
> overloaded term. It can refer to multiple things. In some cases it's
> hardware and other cases it's software.
>
> Not all of HSA software was designed (or suitable) for HPC.

thanks for that clarification

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