HP, others, sign up for AMD's Torrenza

A BUNCH OF FIRMS have signed up for AMD's Torrenza co-processor platform and are super, super excited about it. Paradigms are being smashed, boxes thought out of and scalable, accelerated compute-intensive solutions are vying for attention with flexible, leading edge, world-class computing ecosystems, if the AMD press release is to be believed.

AMD announced that partners including HP, Cray, Altera, Activ Financial, and Rapidmind, are now building Torrenza-based kit using co-processors and custom silicon with dual-core Opterons upgradable to quad-core in the future.

"We've found our Wall Street customers are exceedingly happy with the benefits that a hardware-accelerated solution such as our Activfeed MPU can offer to improve performance said Frank Piasecki, president, Activ Financial. "Hardware acceleration is a technology that's fairly new to financial services, but the benefits are clear, and it's definitely in play."

Those of a nervous disposition are advised not to read the full release here as it is certain to make the shortlist for the Inq 2007 awards for gratuitous and impenetrable marketingspeak. Anyone for 'alleviating cross-industry pain points'? µ

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