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Dell PowerEdge R815

Dell PowerEdge R815

...According to Dell, its AMD Opteron-powered PowerEdge R815, introduced last year, has been a runaway success — particularly... Read more

14 November, 2011 by Alan Stevens

AMD targets web hosts with Opteron 3200 chips

...AMD has announced the 'Zurich' series of low-power Opteron 3200 processors for small businesses. The Opteron 3200 processors are designed for... Read more

20 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

AMD announces five Opterons for high-scale applications

...AMD has launched five server chips in the Opteron 6100 Series processor family. The five new processors, announced on Monday, vary... Read more

14 February, 2011 by Jack Clark

AMD's Bulldozer-based 16-core Opterons arrive

...AMD has launched two Opteron processors aimed at supercomputers, beating arch-rival Intel to market by several... Read more

14 November, 2011 by Jack Clark
Dell PowerEdge R415

Dell PowerEdge R415

...the only mainstream vendor to offer a server based on AMD's Opteron 4100 series processor. Which is surprising, because the server in question — the... Read more

31 August, 2011 by Alan Stevens
AMD acquires Intel partner SeaMicro

AMD acquires Intel partner SeaMicro

...SeaMicro on Wednesday evening. AMD plans to offer SeaMicro servers based around Opteron processors in the second half of 2012. Intel has previously used SeaMicro... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

AMD's Bulldozer rumbles off to server makers

...The chipmaker began production on the Interlagos x86 processor, a 16-core Opteron built on a 32nm process, in August. It has now begun sending... Read more

7 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

AMD chief Dirk Meyer resigns

...went through a series of misfortunes, including the delay of Barcelona, its Opteron-based quad-core server processor. "Dirk became CEO during difficult times. He... Read more

11 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

Amazon Web Services to make free cloud offer

...An ECU provides the equivalent processor capacity of a 1-1.2GHz Opteron or Xeon processor. Amazon describes this type of instance as "well suited... Read more

22 October, 2010 by Jack Clark
Photos: Dell PowerEdge R815

Photos: Dell PowerEdge R815

...Our PowerEdge R815 sample turned up with four AMD Opteron 6174s clocked at 2.2GHz, and a somewhat meek 64GB of RAM... Read more

2 September, 2010 by Craig Simms

AMD announces Lisbon server platform

...AMD has announced the availability of its Opteron 4000 series platform, based on the 'Lisbon' 4100 series processors. The 4000... Read more

23 June, 2010 by Richard Thurston
HP ProLiant G7 Platforms based on the AMD <endeca_term>Opteron</endeca_term>? 6100 Series processors for High Performance Computing

HP ProLiant G7 Platforms based on the AMD Opteron? 6100 Series processors for High Performance Computing

This paper highlights the new architectural features and performance of the AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processor based HP ProLiant G7 Servers. It focuses on the... Read more

1 August, 2010
AMD <endeca_term>Opteron</endeca_term>? 6000 Series Platform and Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2

AMD Opteron? 6000 Series Platform and Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2

...of the latest technology advancements from AMD and Microsoft. Together, the AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform and Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 offer solid performance... Read more

1 June, 2010
A Performance Comparison of AMD <endeca_term>Opteron</endeca_term> Processors with Microsoft® Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

A Performance Comparison of AMD Opteron Processors with Microsoft® Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

...To demonstrate the relative scaling capabilities of Dell™PowerEdge™ Servers with AMD Opteron™ processors running Microsoft® Hyper-V™Server 2008 R2, Dell conducted a proof... Read more

4 November, 2010
Optimal Virtualization with AMD <endeca_term>Opteron</endeca_term>? 6000 Series Platform

Optimal Virtualization with AMD Opteron? 6000 Series Platform

A highly memory-intensive workload, virtualization is currently one of the most sweeping and pervasive trends in IT. By... Read more

1 June, 2010

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