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Characterizing x86 Processors for Industry-Standard Servers: AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon
White Papers The HP ProLiant server portfolio includes systems using the Intel Xeon family of x86 processors and systems using AMD Opteron x86 processors. To help customers understand the implications of these processor architectures on the system platform...
[March 3, 2009, 1:48]
AMD's Opteron gets supercomputer boost
News In a deal that should buoy both computing companies, Sandia National Laboratories will install a $90m (£57m) supercomputer from Cray that will run on Opteron processors from AMD. The supercomputer, code-named Red Storm, will contain approximately...
[October 22, 2002, 7:36]
AMD releases Opteron benchmarks
News AMD released prospective performance benchmarks for its upcoming server chip Opteron, and it appears the chip could land near the head of its class. At the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, California this week, AMD's chief technology officer, Fred...
[October 17, 2002, 7:31]
AMD details Opteron upgrade plans
News AMD will launch Rev F versions of its Opteron chips in the third quarter, a move that ends the single-core server processor era and paves the way for four-core models. With Opteron, AMD has opened a new front in its decades-long competition with...
[March 7, 2006, 12:35]
AMD slashes Opteron price and power
News The Opteron, which is considered to be AMD's best effort to date to compete in the Intel-dominated server market, can run both 32-bit software, like most other Intel and AMD chips, and also more advanced 64-bit versions of the same software.
[February 18, 2004, 10:15]
AMD broadens Opteron's reach
News AMD on Tuesday increased the ranks of its family of 64-bit Opteron server processors with two new models. The new chips round out AMD's Opteron family by offering more performance for a broader range of servers.
[September 9, 2003, 16:10]
AMD to unveil 'Rev F' Opteron chips
News AMD plans to announce its new "Rev F" generation of Opteron server processors Tuesday, the next volley in a competition with Intel's newly competitive Xeon models. The chips are available from Tuesday and AMD has "taped out", or completed the first...
[August 15, 2006, 9:05]
AMD makes its mark on Opteron
News Last week, AMD boosted the chip to 2GHz with introduction of its new Opteron model 246. The chipmaker on Tuesday launched a new logo programme designed to help identify products that contain its Opteron workstation and server processor and its...
[August 12, 2003, 16:35]
IBM and AMD plot Opteron tie-up
News IBM and AMD are expected to announce an alliance that will lead to mainstream IBM servers based on the Opteron processor. IBM and AMD are already partners — indeed, IBM was the first of the big four server makers to endorse the Opteron processor.
[July 21, 2006, 10:10]
Dell opts for AMD's Opteron
News Dell has agreed to use AMD's Opteron chip in multiprocessor servers by the end of the year, ending a long-standing policy of sticking exclusively with Intel. Ever since AMD introduced Opteron in 2003, the processor has enjoyed an advantage over...
[May 19, 2006, 8:55]
IBM warms to AMD Opteron servers
News IBM's top server executive is warming to AMD's Opteron, eyeing the processor's business advantages and the successes Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems have had with it. Since the Opteron introduction in 2003, AMD's Opteron has steadily gained...
[May 2, 2006, 11:50]
MandrakeSoft eyes up AMD's Opteron
News The announcement is a boost for AMD's x86-64 architecture, which will power the Opteron server processor next year and a new Athlon desktop chip near the end of this year. AMD will be targeting this market with Opteron, which will allow 32-bit...
[June 28, 2002, 17:02]
QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies Uses the AMD Opteron Processor to Power Design Automation Applications for Sophisticated New Chipsets
White Papers QCT invested in over 800 2P and 4P AMD Opteron processor-based servers for its QCT data center. QUALCOMM, Inc.is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the Company's CDMA...
[June 24, 2009, 16:01]
Optimizing Linux for Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processors
White Papers The customers will be able to extract the most in performance and reliability when they run the applications on SUSE Linux and the AMD Opteron platform. The introduction of x86 dual- or multi-core technology will change commercial and consumer...
[April 4, 2007, 1:00]
Solaris will run on AMD's Opteron
News Where Intel's Itanium uses dramatically different software from its Pentium or Xeon, AMD's Opteron and Athlon 64 are extensions that can easily run today's 32-bit software. Running Solaris on Opteron will solidify the relationship between Sun and...
[October 10, 2003, 11:15]
Performance of the AMD Opteron LS21 for IBM BladeCenter
White Papers This paper examines the performance of the AMD Opteron LS21 for IBM BladeCenter, or LS21. The analysis includes memory bandwidth and latency using Stream and a proprietary benchmark, floating-point vector performance using High Performance Linpack...
[April 21, 2007, 1:00]
Sun shines on AMD's Opteron chip
News Sun Microsystems is likely to adopt the Opteron processor from AMD as it extends into new branches of the server market. Sun has been testing the forthcoming Opteron chip for servers in its labs, and has found interest for the chip among customers...
[April 9, 2003, 7:17]
Memory Bandwidth and the Performance of Scientific Applications: A Study of the AMD Opteron Processor
White Papers The goal of this paper is to evaluate the memory subsystem performance of the AMD Reference Design Kit (RDK), "Quartet", a four-CPU system based on the AMD Opteron processor. This paper begins by discussing the unique features of the AMD Opteron...
[January 9, 2005, 23:00]
AMD: Quad-core Opteron faster at virtualisation
News AMD's quad-core Opteron processor, code-named Barcelona and due in mid-2007, includes features to speed up virtualisation. Barcelona has specific features to deal with some of those performance issues, Ben Sander, a principal member of AMD's...
[October 11, 2006, 10:00]
AMD offers lower power quad-core Opteron
News AMD has unveiled a new low-power variant of the quad-core Shanghai processor, as part of its drive to improve the energy efficiency of the 45nm Opteron chips released last year. AMD says an EE-based server would use 13 percent less power than a...
[April 22, 2009, 15:37]
