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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: wolfnowl on August 12, 2009, 03:53:09 am

Title: Six Cores
Post by: wolfnowl on August 12, 2009, 03:53:09 am

Hi There:  In case anyone's interested, AMD recently announced their new six-core processors.  More information here: http://sites.amd.com/PublishingImages/Publ...odule/shell.swf (http://sites.amd.com/PublishingImages/Public/Flash/flashvideoplayer/SixCoreOpteronModule/shell.swf)  Although people who do really large stitched images (like Bernard) may be more interested in this: http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/products/xt...e_petaflops.pdf (http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/products/xt/xt5m_affordable_petaflops.pdf)

Mike.

Title: Six Cores
Post by: kal on August 12, 2009, 04:04:59 am

Quote from: wolfnowl

Hi There:  In case anyone's interested, AMD recently announced their new six-core processors.  More information here: http://sites.amd.com/PublishingImages/Publ...odule/shell.swf (http://sites.amd.com/PublishingImages/Public/Flash/flashvideoplayer/SixCoreOpteronModule/shell.swf)  Although people who do really large stitched images (like Bernard) may be more interested in this: http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/products/xt...e_petaflops.pdf (http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/products/xt/xt5m_affordable_petaflops.pdf)

Mike.

Uhm... is there any MPI-enabled pano software? I'd try and install it on our cluster. It's less than 900 cores, but it should give a little performance boost over my athlonx2 workstation...

Title: Six Cores
Post by: BernardLanguillier on August 12, 2009, 06:03:54 am

Quote from: wolfnowl

Hi There:  In case anyone's interested, AMD recently announced their new six-core processors.  More information here: http://sites.amd.com/PublishingImages/Publ...odule/shell.swf (http://sites.amd.com/PublishingImages/Public/Flash/flashvideoplayer/SixCoreOpteronModule/shell.swf)  Although people who do really large stitched images (like Bernard) may be more interested in this: http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/products/xt...e_petaflops.pdf (http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/products/xt/xt5m_affordable_petaflops.pdf)

Thanks for the link Mike, since Autopano pro runs on Linux, I guess that I'll go for the Cray. I have always liked the name anyway.

Cheers,
Bernard

Title: Six Cores
Post by: Wayne Fox on August 12, 2009, 07:06:38 pm

wow ... 900 cores.  

Just an anecdotal story that came to mind  ...

When he (Semour Cray) was told that Apple Computer had just bought a Cray to help design the next Apple Macintosh, Cray commented that he had just bought a Macintosh to design the next Cray.

Title: Six Cores
Post by: kal on August 13, 2009, 05:38:26 am

Quote from: Wayne Fox

wow ... 900 cores.

Yup... but it won't run Photoshop... it won't probably even run any operating system needed to run PS...