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AMAX has launched a new line of GPU workstations and servers powered by AMD's cutting-edge FireStream GPU technology. Featuring 4 GB GDDR5 memory and a parallel processing architecture with 1,600 stream cores per GPU, AMAX's new FireStream-based GPU Supercomputers are ideal for the most demanding compute-intensive data parallel tasks, including climate research, genetic research, engineering analysis, oil and gas exploration, and seismic processing.

"These new products in our portfolio of GPU workstation and server family increases AMAX's versatility," says Bohr-Young Tsao, AMAX Product Manager, "and offer customers a wide range of GPU computing solutions. Our expanding GPU line -- with systems that support up to 6,400 cores, GDDR5 memory and double-precision floating point technology -- help stimulate breakthroughs across a broad range of industries," says Tsao.

Additional features of AMAX's new FireStream GPU Supercomputers include:

• Delivering up to 6,400 stream cores, 10.56 Teraflops of single-precision floating point, and 2.112 Teraflops of double-precision floating point performance in a single chassis
• OpenCL and DirectCompute language technology provides a cross-vendor, non-proprietary solution for accelerating applications
• Open systems approach providing access to high level tools from multiple 3rd party developers
• Familiar 32- and 64-bit Linux and Microsoft Windows environments
• Multiple software entry points
• Scalability -- stream processor supports multiple GPUs per system