Oracle Deployment on x86-64 Linux: Best Practices for Oracle On Demand
White Papers Today, Oracle On Demand uses x86-based servers running 32-bit Linux OS in its data center. These servers offer excellent value and performance. However, in order to address limitations in 32-bit architecture that may affect performance, scalability...
[October 4, 2005, 3:00]
Free Pascal
Downloads Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 and 64 bit professional Pascal compiler. It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86 64, PowerPC, Sparc. The discontinued 1.0 version also supports the Motorola 680x0.
[December 12, 2005, 7:00]
Why 64 bit is the 'new' catchword
News The catchword on the technology horizon is "64-bit computing. Intel has spent quite some time wooing the high-end data center with its IA64 processors running various flavors of Unix. AMD is prepping its x86-64 processors to be able to run 32-bit...
[April 8, 2003, 12:25]
VMware pilots 64-bit virtualisation
News VMware, the maker of proprietary virtualisation software, has released a new version of its workstation software that supports 64-bit x86 processors and operating systems. Intel and AMD now both ship 64-bit x86 processors.
[April 12, 2005, 15:40]
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition RC1 tested
Talkback Mention of Apple? Why? This is an overview of Windows XP Professional for the 64 bit extension of x86. I'm pretty certain that the latest articles on Jaguar/Panther don't mention AMD's x86-64 . Seeing as how there's not a version of Windows for the...
[January 8, 2005, 23:27]
Intel announces 64-bit compatible compiler
News Intel has begun selling programming tools that let developers create software that supports 64-bit x86 chips, an important step in making the new generation of processors useful. Intel earlier this year began selling Xeon and Pentium 4 processors...
[October 4, 2004, 9:15]
Intel comes clean on 64-bit server chip
News Intel will come out with a server chip next quarter that adds 64-bit power to its current x86 line of processors, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday. In a keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum, chief executive Craig Barrett called...
[February 18, 2004, 11:20]
SWsoft turns in Virtuozzo 64-bit performance
News SWsoft has updated Virtuozzo to support 64-bit x86 processors. Virtuozzo makes a single operating system, either Linux or Windows, appear to be several independent instances of the OS, instances the company calls virtual private servers.
[September 27, 2005, 9:30]
Introducing you to... Opteron
News The Opteron chip introduces AMD's new 64-bit architecture, AMD64, and its X86-64 instruction set. This has tightly integrated 32-bit x86 and new 64 bit instructions: AMD hopes that this will give it advantages over both Intel's 32-bit only Xeon...
[April 23, 2003, 15:49]
Is Apple on the way out?
Talkback What does not seem to be mentioned here is the antiquity of the X86 platform.bit is the future and OSX is arguably in the best place right now. The PowerPC platform is clearly making major inroads while Intel is closer to the end of the road than...
[October 14, 2004, 0:44]
Itanium 2-Based Solutions and the x86 Architecture: Optimizing IT Value by Mixing and Matching Industry-Standard Server Platforms
White Papers With the growing market success of Itanium 2-based solutions and the integration of 64-bit extensions into x86-based processors, organizations now have a choice of two widely supported, industry-standard, 64-bit architectures.
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
MandrakeSoft eyes up AMD's Opteron
News MandrakeSoft will adapt its distribution of Linux to AMD's next-generation chip platform, the companies said on Thursday. The announcement is a boost for AMD's x86-64 architecture, which will power the Opteron server processor next year and a new...
[June 28, 2002, 17:02]
HP to unsheathe Opteron blades
News HP last year let Opteron into its ProLiant server family, which until then only used Intel chips. AMD in 2003 pioneered the extension of such x86 chips with 64-bit memory, which permits easy access to more than 4GB of memory.
[February 11, 2005, 8:25]
Chip giants go their own ways (Part 2)
News AMD argues that Intel's approach reinvents the wheel. The chip maker this week made public an aggressive plan to follow Intel into the 64-bit processor market in 2001. AMD is focusing on delivering a 64-bit processor on a modified version of the...
[October 7, 1999, 10:56]
Microsoft makes the leap to 64-bit
News Microsoft said some upcoming products, including its Exchange 12 email server, will run only on 64-bit processors. At a conference for its management software customers, company executives detailed its plans to add support for 64-bit...
[November 16, 2005, 10:05]
AMD losing 32/64-bit chip race
News AMD may have come to market with the first x86 chips that can run both 32-bit and 64-bit software, but Intel's chief said his company has surpassed AMD in shipments in that sector. We are outshipping the competition in that space," Intel CEO Craig...
[March 2, 2005, 11:40]
AMD Hammer chip nails open source
News At LinuxWorld in San Jose, California, AMD announced support from vendors Red Hat and SuSE. The pair will work to port their Linux flavors to AMD's forthcoming 64-bit chip codenamed SledgeHammer. The chip, otherwise known as Hammer, uses a new...
[August 16, 2000, 16:07]
AMD Hammers together 64-bit simulator
News Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) took the wraps off a simulator that allows Linux programmers to develop code for its forthcoming "Hammer" family of 64-bit microprocessors, Friday. The simulator SimNow! mimics the behaviour of AMD's 64-bit...
[October 9, 2000, 10:26]
Intel courts Linux developers with Itanium specs
News Intel took another step toward the launch of its next-generation chip platform Wednesday with the release of the micro-architecture reference required to write applications for the 64-bit Itanium processor.
[May 10, 2000, 8:01]
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]



