FUSION - THE FUTURE

Presented by:
Deepak GR
(4GM07EC025)
CONTENTS
 


Introduction.

A New Inflection Point.

Accelerated Computing: The Coming Paradigm Shift

Market Trends: Driving the Shift to Accelerated Computing

x86 Processor Generations and Application Performance

Approaches to Accelerated Computing

General model of CPU consisting of both APU & GPU

What is an Accelerated Processing Unit?

Advantages.

Reference
INTRODUCTION

Imagine that your computer…

 Recognizes your face to login.

 Recognizes your gestures without a remote.
 Responds to your touch or voice to do your biding.

Many of these capabilities exist today piecemeal in labs,

running on expensive, workstation-class computers that cost as
much as tens of thousands of dollars. Why haven’t we
progressed further, faster in delivering these capabilities to the
mainstream?

Now the computer has came with such a capability.

A New Inflection Point

The computing industry is poised on the edge of an inflection

point where the interaction of hardware and software compute
capabilities will change radically. This inflection point is being
driven by the confluence of the following factors:

 Evolving commercial and consumer workloads.

 New applications.

 Scarcity of programmers.
Accelerated Computing: The Coming Paradigm Shift
Accelerated computing is a framework that improves how
hardware and software interact to support emerging application areas
and evolving workloads while providing energy efficiency, great
performance, and low cost. In the future, with accelerated
computing:
 
 A computer will include general and specialized processors.

 Software will take advantage of the best hardware for a given

processing task without specifying how or where the processing is
actually done.

 Developers will have high-level tools for writing parallel

applications.
Market Trends: Driving the Shift to Accelerated
Computing

Several market trends are driving the shift to accelerated computing:

 Demand for excellent application performance on energy-efficient,

competitively priced computer systems.

 The equalization of hardware and software costs.

 The move to virtualization in server and data center computing.

x86 Processor Generations and Application
Performance
Heterogeneous Multi cores

Figure 2. A heterogeneous multi core processor contains multiple cores designed

for specialized tasks
Approaches to Accelerated Computing

 CPU-centric approach:

 GPU-centric approach:

 Balance and optimization approach:

GENERAL MODEL OF CPU CONSISTING OF BOTH APU AND GPU

Figure 3. To enable the immersive PC usage models that users demand requires both CPU
and GPU collaborative computing
What is an Accelerated Processing Unit?

Figure 4: APU
ADVANTAGES ?
REFERENCE:
1. Carbon Trust Footprint ExpertTM Tool. Carbon Trust Foot printing Company
Website, 2010. http://www.footprintexpert.com/Pages/default.aspx

2. AMD. AMD Benchmarking Whitepaper. AMD Documents. [Online]

http://www.amd.com/us/Documents/AMD_Benchmarking_Whitepaper_46819A1.pdf
.

3. Nathan Brookwood, Research Fellow. AMD Fusion™ Family of APUs:Enabling a

Superior, Immersive PC Experience. [Whitepaper] s.l. : AMD, March 2010.

4. http://www.scribd.com/amd-fusion
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