core at the dual- amd opteron processors
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Roadrunner runs on 6,948 dual-core AMD Opteron chips on IBM Model LS21 blade servers, and 12,960 Cell engines on IBM Model QS22 blade servers. Cell broadband engines, used in the Play Station 3 (PS3), work in conjunction with AMD x86 processors. [11 Jun 2008]
AMD Opteron Processors Deliver Outstanding Performance for Telecommunications Business Support Systems (BSS)
White Paper Wherever there is a need for processing of large amounts of data such as rating of telecommunications subscriber usage data or generating detailed invoices for millions of subscribers, Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors can be relied upon to deliver... [14 Feb 2008]
Intel, AMD fight it out for market share
News In 2006, AMD won over Dell, the last of the four major server sellers to use Opteron servers. AMD fared better in desktops and laptops than it did with its Opteron server chips. AMD and Intel both showed gains in x86 processors for servers with... [31 Jan 2007]
Sun set to bring back Intel's Xeon for servers
News Sun pushed Intel out of its x86 server line in favour of AMD's Opteron in early 2005, saying Intel's chips were slower and more power-hungry, but Intel's new dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" and quad-core Xeon 5300 "Clovertown" processors have... [22 Jan 2007]
Intel flaunts Xeon mark two
News AMD this week announced its new "Rev F" line of dual-core Opteron processors, which in 2007 will be supplanted by quad-core models that plug into the same "Socket F". Linux is popular chiefly on servers, so AMD, Dell, HP, Intel and others with... [17 Aug 2006]
Dell to crank up the heat on AMD love-in
News Dell already scrapped its long-time Intel exclusivity in May, committing to sell a four-processor server with AMD's Opteron by the end of the year. Intel's new Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processor, introduced in June, is now competitive with Opteron... [17 Aug 2006]
HP BladeSystem and HP Management Tools Together With HP SAN Help Propel Polaris Through the Rough Terrain of IT Consolidation
White Paper All of their virtual machines are running on HP ProLiant BL25p server blades with Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors, HP SAN and VMware ESX 2.5.2. Polaris designs, engineers, manufactures and markets snowmobiles, All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs), RANGER... [05 Jul 2006]
Intel unveils 'lean, mean, AMD-busting' Xeon
News The Opteron processor has vaulted rival AMD from the hinterlands of the server market to a more than 20 per cent share, with its superior performance and power consumption. Pixar has both Opteron and Xeon processors in its server rooms, Brandeau said. [27 Jun 2006]
Does this man have the best job in IT?
News The lighting and special effects for Over the Hedge were created using HP workstations and servers, running dual-core AMD Opteron processors. Ed Leonard sounds like he's pretty happy with his job. The CTO for DreamWorks Animation - the studio that... [23 May 2006]
Sun mulls GPL 3 licence for Solaris
News Sun is now emulating two factors in Linux's success by making Solaris open source software and bringing it to computers using x86 processors such as Intel's Xeon and AMD's Opteron. He said: "We've yet to pick the open source licence under which the... [31 Jan 2006]
Blades: Balancing Performance, Rack Density, and Power Constraints in Your Data Center
White Paper HP ProLiant server blades featuring Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors provide a significant increase in performance while reducing server chassis footprint and power requirements. This webcast discusses how Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors and a... [09 Nov 2005]
Sun's x64 Processing Strategy: An Enabler for Consolidation and Virtualization
White Paper Sun servers using the AMD Opteron processor were designed to support consolidation efforts. At the same time, with the advent of multicore processors, dual-core 4-processor servers are powerful enough to be consolidation platforms. [02 Nov 2005]
AMD hires ex-Dell exec
News Rollins has also said Dell - which considers business computers such as servers, storage systems and services to be its main focus - wasn't seeing overwhelming customer demand for AMD Opteron processor servers. [08 Feb 2005]
Intel ushers in new naming era
News The system is not unlike that of Advanced Micro Devices, whose three-digit Opteron model numbers are also designed to reflect the successively higher performance of that chip. The new naming system has been just one of a number of changes at Intel... [10 May 2004]
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