Dear Jan, On Apr 30, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Jan Gryko <gryko at jsu.edu> wrote: > Does anyone have experience running QE on AMD FX 8350 or FX 8320 eight-core > PC? There are several posts on the Forum about Intel 7/AMD dating back > to 2009, but I do not see anything about the PC using the newest FX AMD > processors. > Right now it is possible to build FX8350 (8core, 4 GHz, 16GB memory) for less > than $700.00, > or with 32 GB memory for additional $150.00.
I personally never heard about HPC systems or high-end server for HPC based on AMD microprocessor with Piledriver microarchitecture. Based on wikipedia this Piledriver architecture implements the same "module" philosophy of AMD Bulldozer. So one floating-point scheduler unit that dispatches FP calculations inside two distinct pipelines each one 128-bit wide. How efficiently FP operations are scheduled? no idea. I probably need to study more how Bulldozer AMD architecture works.
