AMD prepares the “fastest graphics supercomputer ever”
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are preparing themselves to release what they are calling the “fastest graphics supercomputer ever” they have announced. It is the AMD Fusion Render Cloud, capable of bringing the user a powerful enough system to allow you to render high definition graphics in 3 dimensions, in a way that has never been done before.
AMD have teamed up with OTOY to bring you the AMD Fusion Render Cloud that is said to bring professional graphics rendering right into your home, or as far into your home as possible as the technology uses a bunch of remote computers to render the 3D high definition footage and then shoots it back to your computer down a cable.
The Fusion Render Cloud is a mixture of lots of different processors that will work together to get the touch job done, such as the AMD Phenom II processors, ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics processors and AMD 790 chipsets. This whole set of processing power will supply over 1 petaflop and will be delivered over 1,000 GPUs.
According to the Chief Executive Officer of AMD, Dirk Meyer, the cloud supercomputer would be easily accessible and easy to use. Meyer went on to say, “Mobile computing is never going to be the same, and cloud computing really has the opportunity to open up new vistas both for the film and game industries. Now we’re poised for a great leap forward in visual computing as well as mobile computing.”
The announcement was made at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Also on stage with Dirk Meyer was Jules Urbach, the Chief Executive Officer and founder of OTOY, who are working with AMD to bring the public this render cloud. Urbach’s software company, OTOY, mainly delivers graphics content to users from server farms in a similar way that AMD are suggesting here and so they would clearly be up for the task.
At the Consumer Electronics Show, Urbach showed a number of ATI graphics cards working together to bring a first player shooting game to a wired up device, showing how the processors could work together to provide greater power.
“All of a sudden we are taking one of the world’s most complicated games and we’re putting it in a Web page. It’s huge. All you need is an iPhone…. [or] a laptop to use it,” announced Urbach, who also claimed that the cloud would be ready for use by the third quarter of the year.
AMD need this little boost and will be promoting the cloud as a way of reinventing the company’s image. AMD recently made 600 workers unemployed as the economic crisis started to take its toll. On top of these redundancies, the company has recorded 8 quarterly losses one after another and have been falling behind Intel, their main rival, by not matching releases and failing to bring out anything of any real interest compare to Intel who have been taking the market from every angle.
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