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High Performance Processors

High Performance Processors. Marcos Mejías Del Valle Carlos Mateo Rojas Daniel Castro Gambedotti Group H ver.2.0 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wednesday, August 25, 2004. Outline. Brief Description Comparison Table Processor Technological Advances Conclusions.

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High Performance Processors

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  1. High Performance Processors Marcos Mejías Del Valle Carlos Mateo Rojas Daniel Castro Gambedotti Group H ver.2.0 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Wednesday, August 25, 2004

  2. Outline • Brief Description • Comparison Table • Processor Technological Advances • Conclusions

  3. What is a High Performance Processor? • Processor subtype utilized for specific systems that require rapid computations and fast input and output speeds. • Usually found in supercomputers, high-capacity servers and mainframes. • Typically based on RISC architectures.

  4. Processors’ Comparison

  5. Processors’ Comparison

  6. Technological Advances • AMD Opteron: • Integrated Memory Controller • HyperTransport Technology • IBM PowerPC 970FX: • Power4 Technology

  7. Technological Advances (Cont.) • Intel Itanium 2: • EPIC Technology • Intel Xeon: • NetBurst Microarquitecture • Hyperthreading • Extended Memory 64

  8. Technological Advances (Cont.) • Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC IV: • Chip Multithreading

  9. Conclusion • Based on the data gathered, the IBM PowerPC 970FX, the Intel Itanium 2 and the AMD Opteron are better all-around for both server and mainframe applications. • AMD Opteron and IBM PowerPC 970FX are compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit systems and applications.

  10. References • http://www.amd.com • http://www.ibm.com/powerpc • http://www.intel.com/products/server/processors/server/xeon/ • http://www.intel.com/products/server/processors/server/itanium2/ • http://www.sun.com/processors • http://www.google.com

  11. Acknowledgements In no particular order, we would like to acknowledge and thank: God, our families, Prof. Santiago and Prof. Jimenez, Prof. Navarro, Carmen, Burger King, Dell Computers, everybody at ICDL, the P.R. Olympic Basketball Team, our friends and classmates, “Joe King”, the original “Group H”, air conditioners, fast internet connections and Larry Stein. If anybody was left out, fill your name in here____________.

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