Transcript Presentation 7

High Performance Processors
Miguel J. González Blanco
Miguel A. Padilla Puig
Felix Rivera Rivas
Company
LOGO
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
Itanium2
Intel
Xeon
AMD
Opteron
High
Performance
Processors
G5
SPARC
MIPS
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
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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
AMD
Opteron™
Intel
Xeon
Intel
Xeon MP
Intel
Itanium 2
G5
Core Frequency
1.4-2.4 GHz
2.0-3.4 GHz
1.4 -3.0 GHz
900 MHz1.5GHz
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
PC1600/PC2100/
PC2700 /PC3200
DDR266
DDR200
DDR200
Memory Bandwidth 2P
System
12.8 GB/s
4.3 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Memory Bandwidth 4P
System
25.6 GB/s
N/A
6.4 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
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 System
12.8 GB/s
3.2 GB/s
4.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Maximum I/O
bandwidth 4P System
25.6 GB/s
N/A
4.8 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
SIMD Instruction Set
SSE, SSE2
SSE, SSE2
SSE, SSE2
N/A
Memory support
PC3200
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Prices
AMD
Opteron
$178.00-$859.00
Intel
Xeon
Intel
Xeon MP
$211.00-$697.00 $220.00-$5000.00
Intel
Itanium 2
$2000.00 $14,000.00
G5
N/A
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