Announces AMD Fusion Render Cloud plans

Jan 9, 2009 10:25 GMT  ·  By

At its Industry Insider Series keynote at the Las Vegas Hilton Theater, AMD announced plans to revolutionize the deployment, development and delivery of High-Definition content through a new massively-parallel supercomputer, dubbed the “AMD Fusion Render Cloud.” The announcement was made alongside leading industry players, such as Lucasfilm, Dell, HP and Electronic Arts. With the announcement, the chip maker is basically gearing up for the future of cloud computing, which is to provide consumers with high-performance HD entertainment and video gaming applications.

“AMD has a long track record in the supercomputing world. Seven out of 10 of the world’s fastest machines, including the fastest two computers on the planet, are powered by AMD hardware,” said Meyer. “Today, AMD is pleased to announce a new kind of supercomputer unlike any other ever built. It is being designed to break the one petaFLOPS barrier, and to process a million compute threads across more than 1,000 graphics processors. We anticipate it to be the fastest graphics supercomputer ever. And it will be powered by OTOY’s software for a singular purpose: to make HD cloud computing a reality. We plan to have this system ready by the second half of 2009.”

The announcement basically states that AMD will be involved in upcoming cloud computing solutions, designed to provide content, such as video games, PC applications or other graphically-intensive applications, through the Internet “cloud.” The content will be delivered to virtually any type of mobile device that benefits from a web browser. Said solution is meant to be enabled without users having to worry about a rapid depletion of the battery life.

AMD's Fusion Render Cloud is expected to be powered by the most recent AMD hardware solutions, including the AMD Phenom II processors, the 790 chipsets and the ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics processors, which combined are meant to deliver a high level of performance while also remaining high on power efficiency.

The Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker will be delivering its hardware solutions, along with the technical software provided by OTOY, a leading software and content developer and provider of convergence technologies and special effects for the video game and film industries.