AMD® 6000 and 4000 Series Processor Overview

 

Based on and improving the superior floating point and memory bandwidth capabilities of the  AMD® Opteron® architecture, the new AMD® 6100 Magny Cours and 4100 series Lisbon processors represent a major step forward in computational power and efficiency. Available with up to 12 cores natively and equipped with 512k individual L2 caches and 12MB shared L3 cache, the Magny Cours processors utilize the new G34 socket die, and represent the current core per socket leader (early 2010) in the ever accelerating many core race. Magny Cours processors are also available in 8 core per socket configurations suitable for many of today's demanding HPC applications. Lisbon processors are available in 6 and 4 core versions in speeds up to 2.9 GHz and utilize the new C32 socket die.

 

All new AMD® 6000 and 4000 series processors utilize DDR3 memory at speeds up to 1333MHz, and are equipped with up to four 6.4GT/s memory channels to improve memory performance. Utilizing AMD® CoolSpeed technology along with Advanced Platform Management and DDR3 memory has increased processor performance per watt significantly. 12 core Magny Cours processors can present a per-core TDP of 10 watts or less!

 

 

 

 

Here's a short list of the processors that are or shortly will be available for your new Aspen Systems  AMD® equipped system.

 

Processor No.	Speed (GHz)	Cores	Mem (Ghz)	Cache    (L3)	Watts
6176 SE	2.3	12	1333	12M	105
6174	2.2	12	1333	12M	80
6172	2.1	12	1333	12M	80
6168	1.9	12	1333	12M	80
6136	2.4	8	1333	12M	80
6134	2.3	8	1333	12M	80
6128	2.0	8	1333	12M	80
6164 HE	1.7	12	1333	12M	65
6128 HE	2.0	8	1333	12M	65
6124 HE	1.8	8	1333	12M	65
4186	2.9	6	1333	6M
4184	2.8	6	1333	6M
4180	2.6	6	1333	6M
4130	2.6	4	1333	6M
4122	2.2	4	1333	6M
4176 HE	2.4	6	1333	6M
4174 HE	2.3	6	1333	6M
4170 HE	2.1	6	1333	6M
4164 EE	1.8	6	1333	6M
4162 EE	1.7	6	1333	6M

 

 

Direct Connect Architecture 2.0 helps the new  AMD® 6000 and 4000 series processors achieve superior performance.

• DDR3 memory, up to 1333 MHz to provide higher peak throughput than earlier memory technologies
• a 4th HyperTransport (HT3) Link to enable a fully connected 4-way topology for increased I/O performance
• Higher HT3 Speed, with support for up to 6.4GT/s per link
• Quad Channel Memory to provide increased memory capacity
• Platform longevity via planned drop-in upgrade capabilities for next-generation CPUs
  

 

 

Breaking the 4 Socket Cost Barrier

 

Another significant innovation AMD® has presented with the 6100 series is the capability to operate in either two socket (2P) or four socket (4P) configurations with the same processor. In the past, 4 socket systems required a different processor than two socket systems, usually at a significant cost increase. This price uplift is well known in the HPC industry, and has been referred to in the past as the 4P Tax. AMD® has effectively removed this price barrier, allowing cost effective 4 socket server configurations to be manufactured.

 

Using 6100 series 12 core Magny Cours processors, it is now possible to build a single 4 socket system with 48 cores and over 100 GB/s Stream Triad bandwidth, and 8 socket Magny Cours systems are possible as well. These systems are well suited to virtualization, large memory, and shared memory or highly threaded applications that may not scale well in a traditional MPI environment, and can represent significant cost savings over past 4 socket large memory systems.

 

 

 

 

Lisbon, more performance per watt

 

The AMD® 4000 series Lisbon processors can operate as a two or one socket server, in quad or six core configurations, and presents a high performance per watt advantage in more dense configurations. Using the 4000 Lisbon series processors can be especially advantageous in highly parallel MPI applications that are bandwidth or interconnect constrained and may not scale well with many cores sharing the same interconnect infrastructure.

 

 

 

The Lisbon series processors have several features which make them especially suited to high bandwidth and high density HPC solutions.

• Up to 21.3 GB/sec memory access speed with utilizing DDR3 1333 MHz memory
• Two HT3 links at up to 6.4 GT/sec (25.6 GB/s) per link can provide up to 51.2 GB/s peak bandwidth per processor.
• an optional third HT3 link was added to provide maximum flexibility, and is provisioned on some motherboards

 

No matter what your HPC requirements, there is an AMD® 6000 or 4000 series processor that can help you today. With more cores, more memory, and better value, AMD® processors are better than ever!

 

Contact Aspen Systems sales at 1-800-992-9242 for more information about high performance computing systems built with AMD® 6000 and 4000 Series processors today!