Tag Archives: APU

AMD Showcases its Next-Gen x86 APU Running Fedora Linux

Posted on 18 April 2014 by hpc2go

On Wednesday, during Red Hat Summit 2014, AMD announced a major milestone in the development of its enterprise software ecosystem with the first public demonstration of its second-generation AMD Opteron™ X-Series APU, codenamed “Berlin”, running a Linux environment based on … Continue reading →

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Opteron X: AMD’s solution for Micro-Servers

Posted on 1 June 2013 by hpc2go

AMD launched on Wednesday a new family of low power server processors: the AMD Opteron™ X-Series optimized for scale-out server architectures. The AMD Opteron X-Series processors come in two variants.  The AMD Opteron X2150, which consumes as little as 11 … Continue reading →

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AMD introduces hUMA, sharing the memory between CPU and GPU

Posted on 1 May 2013 by hpc2go

Although CPUs and GPUs have coexisted on the same piece of silicon (better known as an APU), for a few years now, the CPU and GPU have not been ‘equal citizens’. Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) is an intelligent computing architecture … Continue reading →

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