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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/27/2016 05:53 PM, Brian Oborn
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<div>I noticed that AMD is coming out with a new line of Pro
cards that have two PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots for caching 1TB of
content on the card.</div>
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<div>I'm wondering what the list's thoughts are on the following
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<div>1) Is AMD relevant in HPC anymore? In the Top500 list I
only found two older systems that had AMD video cards and none
that had AMD CPUs. Does anyone here run smaller newer AMD
clusters?</div>
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Are you talking CPUs or GPUs? As far as their GPUs, when AMD
released their FirePro S9150 GPU, it was signficantly faster than
NVidia's K40. I don't think NVidia has released anything new that
can beat it yet. The K80 is really just 2 K40s in one package. I
haven't been keeping up with industry news as much recently, so
NVidia could have come out with something better since then. AMD has
since come out with the FirePro S9300 x2, which based on the name,
I'm guessing is two S9150s in a single package, a la the K80<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2462240/amd-claims-supercomputing-gpu-performance-crown-with-firepro-s9150.html">http://www.pcworld.com/article/2462240/amd-claims-supercomputing-gpu-performance-crown-with-firepro-s9150.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/server/s9300-x2">http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/server/s9300-x2</a><br>
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At SC15, AMD announce that they were adopting CUDA (sort of) <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.techpowerup.com/217611/amd-launches-the-boltzmann-initiative-brings-nvidia-cuda-to-firepro">https://www.techpowerup.com/217611/amd-launches-the-boltzmann-initiative-brings-nvidia-cuda-to-firepro</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wccftech.com/amd-cuda-compilercompatibility-layer-announced-with-the-boltzmann-initiative/">http://wccftech.com/amd-cuda-compilercompatibility-layer-announced-with-the-boltzmann-initiative/</a><br>
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While NVidia is still dominating the GPU field by a large margin,
these developments show that AMD hasn't given up on the GPU market
and has made some pretty significant advances in the past couple of
years. Only time will tell if this is enough to keep them in the
game and grab some market share, though<br>
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<div>2) Are there many workloads that would benefit from this
type of cache? I think trying to juggle GPU RAM, system RAM,
GPU storage, system storage, and inter-node networking might
make this too difficult to scale beyond a single system?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Brian Oborn</div>
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