14 DAY TRIAL // This year’s AFDS event is proving to be very interesting and it clearly has much more serious impact on the computing industry than last year.
Now we even have AMD APU-based professional servers from Penguin Computing fitted with proper software that will take advantage of the iGPU inside AMD’s Fusion APUs and offer considerable better results.
In this case, the demonstration is done on a Penguin Computing 2A00 server that you can read about here.
The system is powered by AMD’s Llano APUs, but we can expect Trinity versions to appear soon.
In this particular case, Penguin uses Accelereyes’ software called “Jacket,” that allows MATLAB to run on both the x86 core and the iGPU at the same time.
The iGPU is able to deliver 52% better performance, but as the speaker emphasizes, the server is actually running two threads at the same time, offering a combined performance of 252% the performance of just the x86 cores.
The user will be able to run two different threads in MATLAB at the same time.
One will use the x86 cores and the other will use the OpenCL capabilities of the iGPU with the help of Accelereyes’ “Jacket” software.
The demo is impressive, as practically the productivity of the system is increased almost three times while there is a single APU inside.