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High Performance Processors

Miguel J. González BlancoMiguel A. Padilla PuigFelix Rivera Rivas

Outline

1. Types of Processors

a. SPARC

b. Intel Xeon MP

c. Intel Itanium 2

d. MIPS

e. AMD Opteron

f. Apple G5

2. Comparison Table

3. Prices

4. Conclusion

5. References

Types of Processors

Intel Xeon

Intel Itanium2 AMD

Opteron

G5

MIPS

High Performance Processors

SPARC

SPARC

RISC microprocessor originally designed by Sun Microsystems

SPARC processor contains as many as 128 general purpose registers

The UltraSPARC IV has a clock frequency of 1.05 – 1.2 GHz and a 16 MB L2 cache

Intel Xeon MP

Intel NetBurst® Microarchitecture with 400 MHz system bus Hyper-Threading Technology: Hardware support for multi-threaded server

applications Rapid Execution Engine Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 (SSE2) Integrated Level 3 Cache (4MB, 2MB, or 1MB)

Intel Itanium 2

Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC)

6MB L3 integrated cache, 256KB L2 cache, 32KB L1 cache

Enhanced Machine Check Architecture (MCA) with extensive Error Correcting Code (ECC)

Floating point architecture: Speeds up complex calculations

Target software segments: Databases, High Performance Computing, Security Transactions, Software Engineering and Network Edge

MIPS

MIPS designs are used in SGI's computer product line, embedded systems, Windows CE devices, and Cisco routers.

The Nintendo 64 console, Sony PlayStation2 console use MIPS processors.

The latest MIPS processor has a core frequency of 600 MHz a computer bus speed of 200 MHz an a L2 cache of 8 MB

AMD Opteron

AMD64 Core

Simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing capabilities Direct Connect Architecture Integrated DDR DRAM Memory Controller Hyper Transport Technology Cray, Inc. announced that they will create a supercomputer using 10,000

AMD Opteron processors which will have a theoretical peak performance of 40 TFlops

G5

The PowerPC G5 microprocessor has over 58 million transistors on it and it incorporates IBM's 90 nanometer fabrication process.

The processor is manufactured with SOI technology, and IBM's additive-copper to be used in chip wiring.

The G5 64-bit processor has a RAM capacity of eight gigabytes.

G5 has a "superscalar, superpipelined" execution core that can handle up to 216 in-flight instructions, and uses a 128-bit, 162-instruction SIMD unit.

Virginia Tech built a super computer using 1100 G5 dual processors!!!

Comparison Table

G5Intel

Itanium 2

Intel

Xeon MP

Intel

XeonAMD

Opteron™Core Frequency 1.4-2.4 GHz 2.0-3.4 GHz 1.4 -3.0 GHz 900 MHz-1.5GHz 1.8 to 2.5ghz

Front Side Bus frequency

1.4-2.4 GHz 533 MHz 400 MHz 400 MHz 900MHz-1.5GHz

Front Side Bus bw 11.2-19.2 GB/s 4.3 GB/s 3.2 GB/s 6.4 GB/s Up to 8Gb/s

Max Inter-processor bandwidth

6.4 GB/s 4.3 GB/s 3.2 GB/s 6.4 GB/s 16 Gb/s

Memory supportPC1600/PC2100/ PC2700 /PC3200 DDR266 DDR200 DDR200

PC3200

Memory Bandwidth 2P System

12.8 GB/s 4.3 GB/s 6.4 GB/s 6.4 GB/sN/A

Memory Bandwidth 4P System

25.6 GB/s N/A 6.4 GB/s 6.4 GB/sN/A

L1 cache size (max) 128 KB 8KB +12k µop 8KB+12k µop 32 KB 128KB

L2 cache size (max) 1 MB 512 KB 512 KB 256 KB 512KB

L3 cache size (max) N/A 2 MB 4 MB 1.5/3.0/4.0/6MB 2MB

Maximum I/O bandwidth 2P

System12.8 GB/s 3.2 GB/s 4.8 GB/s 6.4 GB/s

N/A

Maximum I/O bandwidth 4P

System25.6 GB/s N/A 4.8 GB/s 6.4 GB/s

N/A

SIMD Instruction Set SSE, SSE2 SSE, SSE2 SSE, SSE2 N/AN/A

Prices

$178.00-$859.00 $211.00-$697.00$2000.00 -$14,000.00

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AMD Opteron

IntelXeon

Intel Xeon MP

Intel Itanium 2 G5

$220.00-$5000.00

Conclusion

This processors are generally used in graphic applications and in complex computing methods.

Processors like Apple’s G5 made it possible to create a super computer at a relatively low price.

RISC architecture is faster than CISC

References

http://www.amd.com/

http://www.intel.com/

http://www.apple.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org