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HP Starts Selling Four-Opteron Server
News Hewlett-Packard has begun selling a four-Opteron server, its second model to use the Advanced Micro Devices processor, and has brought the chip into its high-performance technical computing line. The Opteron processor has vaulted AMD to the front...
[April 20, 2004, 8:55]
Opteron Strikes Up A Quartet
News Servers containing up to four Opteron processors will hit the market later this quarter, a key element in Advanced Micro Devices' strategy to penetrate the corporate market. Part of the reason AMD has been able to move relatively quickly into the...
[April 22, 2003, 13:07]
HP Spruces Up Opteron Lines
News HP has upgraded a four-processor server with AMD's new dual-core Opteron and introduced a blade server with the chip. The new BL45p blade system, HP's first four-Opteron blade, brings a substantial change: It's half the size of the existing Xeon...
[April 21, 2005, 10:35]
Sun Packs Four Opterons Into A Server
News Sun Microsystems on Monday will launch a server with four Opteron processors, sources said, the latest step in the company's effort to expand its product line beyond its own processors. The four-Opteron model is called the V40z, said John Fowler...
[July 23, 2004, 8:45]
Fujitsu Readies Eight-way Blade Server
News Fujitsu will begin selling technology next quarter that lets four dual-processor blade servers be linked into a single machine with eight AMD Opteron chips. IBM sells a 32-Xeon machine, the x460, and Sun plans an eight-processor Opteron server this...
[March 14, 2006, 9:00]
Sun Launches Blade Model Plus Upgrade Plan
News Sun announced a new four-Opteron blade model on Tuesday and a plan that lets blade server customers "subscribe" to the latest hardware from the company. Sun's X8420 blade houses four 8000-series dual-core Opteron processors from AMD — the "Rev F...
[January 10, 2007, 8:35]
Opteron Launches Amidst Benchmark Fanfare
News In the coming weeks, many of these companies will also begin to sell Opteron blade systems and four-processor systems based on Newisys designs. Unlike Intel chips, Opteron can run 32-bit software, which is found on desktops and one- and two...
[April 22, 2003, 13:48]
Sun Sets Opteron Strategy
News Sun Microsystems is placing Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip at the centre of its low-end server strategy, starting with a dual-processor system, to be announced this month, and four- and eight-processor systems coming later.
[February 2, 2004, 9:45]
Opteron Gets A Performance Boost
News The chipmaker on Tuesday launched three new Opteron models, including models 250, 150 and 850, designed for servers with dual, single and four or more processors, respectively. So far, the Opteron's 64-bit approach -- which means the chip offers...
[May 18, 2004, 16:35]
AMD Unveils Barcelona At Last
News Code-named Barcelona, the long-awaited Opteron quad-core server chip comprises four processing cores on a single piece of silicon, and it is this "complicated" design that resulted in the delay, said AMD chief executive Hector Ruiz in an earlier...
[September 11, 2007, 8:36]
AMD Alliance 'doesn't Undermine Intel' - HP
News HP announced two-Opteron and four-Opteron servers, as expected, and plans to sell a thin dual-Opteron blade server by the end of the third quarter. The four-Opteron ProLiant DL585, 7 inches tall, will be available by 9 April, Miller said.
[February 25, 2004, 9:05]
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 And Intel Gear Up For Dual-core Demos
News AMD on Tuesday will show off a Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server with four dual-core Opteron chips at a facility in Austen, Texas, bringing the functional number of chips in four-processor servers to eight.
[August 31, 2004, 9:00]
HP Puts AMD In Servers
News Opteron is designed to compete more in the one- to four-processor segment, a market currently dominated by Intel's Xeon chip. Hewlett-Packard plans to come out with servers that contain Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, in another...
[January 27, 2004, 8:55]
HP To Confirm Opteron Server
News Sources expect HP's Opteron servers to have between one and four processors. Sun Microsystems has a more aggressive plan, which includes the release of dual-Opteron machines in April, the launch of four- and eight-processor successors and the...
[February 24, 2004, 7:45]
Opteron Hoping To Light Up Sun's Galaxy
News The Galaxy machines join two-processor and four-processor Opteron servers that Sun has sold since 2004, but those models are Sun-badged products actually designed by another company. Both house up to two dual-core Opteron processors, but the X4100...
[September 5, 2005, 8:30]
AMD Upgrades Opterons
News The Opteron, which Sun is expected to offer in two- and four-processor servers, is being used as a fulcrum by AMD, as part of an effort to catapult its revenue upward by winning more business from corporations.
[November 17, 2003, 16:45]
Cray To Announce Opteron-based Supercomputer
News Cray on Monday is expected to announce two supercomputing developments, the new AMD Opteron-based XT4 shipping this year and the multi-threaded XMT due next year. Indeed, the Opteron-based XT4 merges two existing lines, and the XMT itself is a...
[November 13, 2006, 9:06]
Flexible Hammer Knocks On Server Doors
News Unlike servers based on Intel processors, which require different chipsets for systems with one, two, four or eight processors, Athlon and Opteron servers would use chipsets that would be roughly identical regardless of the number of processors...
[July 1, 2002, 11:34]
IBM Warms To AMD Opteron Servers
News There are a whole bunch of business considerations that would say we would have done better had we had a four-(processor) Opteron product. IBM was the first of the four top-tier server makers to sell Opteron servers, but its models were geared only...
[May 2, 2006, 11:50]
