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作者: itany 时间: 2008-7-9 10:35
标题: 业界纷纷抛弃Opteron，AMD噩梦降临

梦工厂转投Intel Larrabee开发新3D动画片

驱动之家[原创] 作者：Skyangeles 编辑：Skyangeles　2008-07-09 09:50:08 738 人阅读 [投递]

据国外媒体报道，Intel已经在进军视觉计算的领域找到了一家颇具说服力的合作伙伴。好莱坞巨头梦工厂动画公司已经和Intel展开合作，使用Nehalem处理器和Larrabee显卡加速设备，开发他们的首部3D立体动画电影，名为《怪物vs外星人》（Monsters vs. Aliens），预计于明年3月上映。

Intel发言人表示：“梦工厂将使用最新的高性能处理技术，包括未来的多核心芯片，满足3D动画渲染的性能需求。”发言人Nick Knupffer还专门指出，所谓“未来的多核心芯片”指的就是Nehalem处理器和Larrabee cGPU：多核心显卡和浮点运算加速架构。

在此之前，梦工厂动画一直是AMD的忠实支持者，《怪物史莱克3》就是使用代号巴塞罗那的四核心Opteron工作站渲染的的。Intel表示，梦工厂目前正在将其“基础运算架构向Intel系统转移。”

作者: kingofmx200 时间: 2008-7-9 10:40
看看，顶一下

作者: jhj9 时间: 2008-7-9 10:41
有高性能的Intel平台放着不用去用低性能的AMD才是怪事
这些地方又不缺钱:w00t):

作者: itany 时间: 2008-7-9 10:43
DreamWorks Animation goes from AMD to Intel chipsBy RYAN NAKASHIMA Associated Press Writer

Jul 8th, 2008 | LOS ANGELES -- DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., maker of the "Shrek" movies and "Kung Fu Panda," announced Tuesday it will switch from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. computer chips to Intel Corp.'s as it moves toward making all 3-D movies.

The studio's relationship with AMD started in 2005, back when animating animal fur was a key industry milestone.

With that achieved in the very furry "Kung Fu Panda," released last month, the animation house is following through on a commitment made last year to make all its movies in 3-D starting with "Monsters vs. Aliens," which is scheduled for release in March 2009.

The 3-D format requires twice the computing power of traditional animation because viewers' right and left eyes receive separate images, meaning it can take up to 16 hours to process a single frame, the company said.

"Our artists, to a large degree, actually work blind," DreamWorks Animation Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "They send it out and have to wait overnight to actually see what they've done."

"The impact of these new chipsets is that it will go from overnight to hours to minutes," he said. "Within a handful of years — or less, actually — we may achieve the Holy Grail of our business, which is to actually work in real time. So it's actually, literally in the moment of creation, you can see your work."

Some 1,000 workstations and 1,500 server units at DreamWorks Animation will make the switch to Intel chips over the next 18 months, and a team of Intel engineers will fine-tune DreamWorks' proprietary software for use on the new equipment.

The studio began looking at its needs as its AMD contract neared an end, said John Batter, DreamWorks Animation's co-president of production for feature animation. The final touches on "Kung Fu Panda" were made with computers running on both Intel and AMD processors, he said.

Intel's code-named Nehalem processor for high-end workstations will have up to eight processor cores, while its Larrabee server processor will have between 10 and 100, said Intel spokesman Nick Knupffer. Those are the two chips DreamWorks has agreed to buy.

In contrast, AMD's three-year agreement with DreamWorks involved Opteron processors with dual cores. Since last year, AMD began selling quad-core processors and plans to develop 12-core processors by 2010.

"We've been happy with AMD up to this point," Batter said. "But as we look out and look at the number of compute engines per chip, the Intel roadmap syncs more closely with our needs."

Intel plans to use DreamWorks Animation as a test site for its future visual computing products, Knupffer said. Nehalem will be launched commercially by the end of the year, while Larrabee will launch in 2009 or 2010, he said.

AMD said the decision was mutual to end the marketing and equipment partnership, from which it benefited from publicity surrounding every DreamWorks Animation film for the past three years, but that it would seek to work with the studio again.

It was the latest blow for the world's No. 2 chipmaker, whias racked up more than $4 billion in losses in a skid that stretches back to the last three months of 2006.

"It's a cyclical industry," said AMD spokesman Drew Prairie. "We'll look forward to be able to work them again."

DreamWorks Animation's shares rose 89 cents, or 3.1 percent, to close at $29.65 Tuesday, while Intel's rose 21 cents, or 1 percent, to $20.92. AMD shares rose 15 cents, or 2.8 percent, to close at $5.53.

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/scitech/2008/07/08/D91PT4K8B_dreamworks_animation_intel/index.html

作者: itany 时间: 2008-7-9 10:52
标题: Cary的回归

Cray Inc. and Intel Corporation announced the entry of a comprehensive multi-year
collaboration to advance high-performance computing on Intel processors while delivering
new Intel and Cray technologies in future Cray server systems. The collaboration of these
two industry leaders will result in high performance computing (HPC) systems that will help
solve some of the world's most complex scientific, engineering and humanitarian challenges.

"We're excited at the potential of bringing together Intel's powerful silicon expertise and
Cray's industry leadership in scalable HPC systems,” said Peter Ungaro, president
and CEO of Cray. "We pride ourselves in offering the most innovative supercomputing
systems and our customers will now enjoy greater choice in processor technologies."

作者: itany 时间: 2008-7-9 10:58
Sun的新闻就不转了，就转一个标题：

http://www.sun.com/x64/intel/index.jsp

作者: honor01 时间: 2008-7-9 11:01
正常的事情，买amd做什么，低性能，高能耗

作者: 1empress 时间: 2008-7-9 12:35
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作者: librae 时间: 2008-7-9 17:43
谁好买谁
很正常啊

作者: bill_max 时间: 2008-7-9 18:40
爆料很多，建议版主加之名誉。

作者: zyxel2008 时间: 2008-7-9 18:51

原帖由 bill_max 于 2008-7-9 18:40 发表
爆料很多，建议版主加之名誉。

非常同意，呵呵

和显卡区的p叔一样有名

作者: fenchang 时间: 2008-7-9 19:21
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作者: L2S 时间: 2008-7-9 19:42

原帖由 1empress 于 2008-7-9 12:35 发表
itany都快成了处理器区的PHK了

PHK虽然无聊，至少还没打着拯救苍生的口号来扮演救世主。。。

作者: kingofmx200 时间: 2008-7-9 19:48

原帖由 1empress 于 2008-7-9 12:35 发表
itany都快成了处理器区的PHK了

PHK被人挖坟的数量那可是完胜Itany

作者: awoo 时间: 2008-7-9 20:40
一连串E文，高，可进名誉了。

作者: G70 时间: 2008-7-9 20:54
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作者: 自自在在 时间: 2008-7-9 21:30
amd东边不亮西边亮，cpu混得不好gpu确是混得不错哦:rolleyes:

作者: dickdai 时间: 2008-7-9 21:52
同意楼上的说话。。AMD 不会坐以待毙！

作者: ITANIUM2 时间: 2008-7-10 10:09

原帖由 1empress 于 2008-7-9 12:35 发表
itany都快成了处理器区的PHK了

itany 比p叔差远了，距离名誉会员还有很大距离

作者: shike_cuke 时间: 2008-7-10 10:53
强烈关注............

作者: jambooc 时间: 2008-7-10 12:22
原因很简单，intel的“你high了”就要出来了。

架构适合cluster。

作者: Boomer 时间: 2008-7-10 14:38
Intel. Leap ahead.(TM)

作者: Rock·Will 时间: 2008-7-10 17:26
见好贴必顶，见Intel必支持！

作者: scowl 时间: 2008-7-10 19:12

原帖由 jhj9 于 2008-7-9 10:41 发表
有高性能的Intel平台放着不用去用低性能的AMD才是怪事
这些地方又不缺钱:w00t):

搞清楚之前在多路系统下Opteron的优势再说话好么？？

话说扣肉系列也出来两年了

最近才开始转向INTEL你真的以为是单个核心性能的问题？

[ 本帖最后由 scowl 于 2008-7-10 19:14 编辑 ]

作者: vitto2 时间: 2008-7-11 10:27

原帖由 scowl 于 2008-7-10 19:12 发表

搞清楚之前在多路系统下Opteron的优势再说话好么？？

话说扣肉系列也出来两年了

最近才开始转向INTEL你真的以为是单个核心性能的问题？

那请给说说怎么回事？

作者: elisha 时间: 2008-7-11 11:18

原帖由 scowl 于 2008-7-10 19:12 发表

搞清楚之前在多路系统下Opteron的优势再说话好么？？

话说扣肉系列也出来两年了

最近才开始转向INTEL你真的以为是单个核心性能的问题？

Woodcrest出来第一年TOP500分额就比Opteron高了

作者: Rock·Will 时间: 2008-7-11 11:41
之前AMD一直在吃/憋。。
现在碰到Nehalem，AMD就要改吃/屎了……

作者: madcat2100 时间: 2008-7-11 11:57

原帖由 scowl 于 2008-7-10 19:12 发表

搞清楚之前在多路系统下Opteron的优势再说话好么？？

话说扣肉系列也出来两年了

最近才开始转向INTEL你真的以为是单个核心性能的问题？

潜台词： AMD就是好啊就是好，就是好啊就是好{lol:]

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