VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

AMD has unveiled the AMD FirePro W4300 for the best Computer-Aided Design (CAD) performance that fits both small form-factor (SFF) and tower workstations at Autodesk University 2015.  The AMD FirePro W4300 card expertly integrates a powerful GPU and 4GB of GDDR5 memory within a low-profile design for installation in SFF as well as full-sized systems. Organizations can now confidently simplify their IT management by standardizing on a single, capable professional graphics solution throughout their workstation deployment. “We designed the AMD FirePro W4300 specifically for CAD. CAD users rely on AMD FirePro graphics cards to enable their application features to best visualize their designs, and now can continue to do so without having to compromise by using the latest energy-efficient, small form-factor workstations,” said Sean Burke, Corporate Vice-President & General Manager, Radeon Technologies Group, AMD... Read more

AMD has unveiled innovation in heterogeneous high performance computing (HPC) by delivering more than 1.5 petaFLOPS of AMD FirePro S9150 server GPU performance for the Next Generation Sequencing Centre (NGSC) at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw in support of bioinformatics research related to next generation sequencing (NGS) studies. The new ORION cluster features 150 Dell PowerEdge R730 servers with two AMD FirePro S9150 server GPUs, for a total GPU peak of 1.52 petaFLOPS single precision and 0.76 petaFLOPS double precision performance1. The energy-efficient cluster enables high speed and efficient calculations for genomic data, applicable to a range of genomics and bioinformatics studies, using a fast and power efficient OpenCL implementation for research applications. Corporate vice-president and general manager, AMD Professional Graphics, Sean Burke said, “We’re committed to building our HPC leadership position in the industry as a foremost provider of comp...