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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

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Outline

• Brief Description
• Comparison Table
• Processor Technological Advances
• Conclusions

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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.

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Processors Comparison
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Processors Comparison
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Technological Advances

• AMD Opteron
• Integrated Memory Controller
• HyperTransport Technology
• IBM PowerPC 970FX
• Power4 Technology

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Technological Advances (Cont.)

• Intel Itanium 2
• EPIC Technology
• Intel Xeon
• NetBurst Microarquitecture
• Hyperthreading
• Extended Memory 64

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Technological Advances (Cont.)

• Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC IV
• Chip Multithreading

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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.

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References

• http//www.amd.com
• http//www.ibm.com/powerpc
• http//www.intel.com/products/server/processors/se
  rver/xeon/
• http//www.intel.com/products/server/processors/se
  rver/itanium2/
• http//www.sun.com/processors
• http//www.google.com

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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____________.