AMD Introduces the World’s Most Advanced x86 Processor, Designed for the Demanding Datacenter
Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processors Deliver Breakthrough Performance-Per-Watt
Sunnyvale, Calif. – Sept. 10, 2007 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced
the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor, the world’s most advanced x86
processor ever designed and manufactured and the first native x86
quad-core microprocessor. Designed from inception for the most demanding
datacenters, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers from global
OEMs and system builders can deliver breakthrough capabilities to
customers in a time of dramatically escalating performance-per-watt
emphasis.
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with AMD’s revolutionary Direct Connect
Architecture introduce innovations that go beyond four x86 processing
cores on a single die of silicon. Critical considerations for today’s
most challenging business requirements inspired Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor innovations: energy efficiency with a 50 percent increase in
integer and floating-point performance, enhanced virtualization
performance, and investment protection via a customer-centric approach
enabling non-disruptive transitions from dual- to quad-core within the
same power and thermal envelopes to help keep infrastructure costs down.
“Today marks one of the great milestones in microprocessor achievement
as AMD again raises expectations for industry-standard computing,” said
Hector Ruiz, chairman and chief executive officer, AMD. “We’ve worked
closely with our customers and partners to design a new generation of
processing solutions embodied by today’s Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor – a four-way winner in performance,
energy efficiency, virtualization and investment protection. Early
customer response has been extremely positive.”
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based systems from global OEM and
system-builder partners begin shipping this month and are expected to
increase in number through the remainder of the year. AMD Phenom(tm)
processor solutions, which will leverage many of the same benefits of
this innovative, next-generation architecture, are expected to be
available for the desktop market in December. Due in part to the
industry’s most stable x86 server platform, more than 50 socket
compatible Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-ready system choices are on
the market today from tier one OEMs, all of whom are publicly supporting
today’s introduction.
“Today more customers choose ProLiant for their AMD processor-based
server blades than any other vendor by a factor of more than 2 to 1. HP
offers customers a broad portfolio built on innovative designs to
address customer needs in the areas of power, virtualization and cost,”
said Paul Miller, vice president, marketing, enterprise storage and
servers, HP. “With today’s launch of Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors,
we can help customers bring new levels of efficiency to their
infrastructure as we broaden our AMD Opteron processor-based family of
servers.”
“Sun is thrilled about the introduction of Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processors. Incorporating Sun’s innovative design principles that enable
stunning scalability and industry-leading performance-per-watt, our
upcoming Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers and workstations
will only accelerate the momentum Sun is experiencing in its x64
business,” said John Fowler, executive vice president of Sun
Microsystems’ Systems Group. “With so much pent-up demand for the
scalability of native quad-core processing, Sun believes there will be
rapid, widespread adoption of Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based
systems. We applaud AMD for yet another technological breakthrough, and
are excited to continue to grow our alliance.”
“Dell and AMD share a commitment to delivering industry-leading
performance, performance-per-watt, and the most energy-efficient product
designs to help our customers focus on driving their business forward,”
said Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Dell Product Group. “Dell’s
ability to seamlessly deliver the benefits of AMD’s Dual Dynamic Power
Management technology means our customers can get more today and for
future growth in the AMD processor-powered Dell PowerEdge 2970 and
Energy Smart 2970.”
“IBM was the first global OEM to support AMD Opteron processors in 2003.
Today our relationship is delivering powerful and energy-efficient
business performance computing solutions” said James Gargan, vice
president, Brand Management System x & BladeCenter, IBM. “Our x86
systems feature IBM’s X-Architecture innovation, such as Xcelerated
Memory Technology, to help optimize Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor
capabilities for peak system performance. We look forward to bringing
new products to market with AMD later this year to help strengthen IBM’s
position as the world’s top server vendor .”
Systems based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are also being
announced today by a host of other manufacturers, including Appro,
Egenera, Gateway, Rackable Systems, Supermicro and Verari.
Additionally, AMD is providing the channel with a tremendous
opportunity to be able to offer their customers Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor-based solutions very soon after launch. AMD Validated Server
Program platforms are available today through distribution, empowering
channel partners with the opportunity to be early to market with
solutions.
AMD introduces Average CPU Power (ACP)
AMD also today introduced the Average CPU Power (ACP) metric, which
represents processor power usage, including cores, integrated memory
controller, and HyperTransport(tm) technology links, while running a
suite of typical and relevant commercially useful high utilization
workloads to be more indicative of the power consumption that end-users
can expect. ACP is a useful metric for data center operators when
estimating power budgets to size their datacenters. AMD will continue to
provide thermal design power (TDP) specifications to platform designers
in AMD power and thermal datasheets.
AMD is introducing Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors today at the 55- and
75-watt ACP. For system designers, AMD will continue to state its TDP
specifications.
New Standard in Energy Efficiency
As datacenters in the U.S. face the potential of doubling their energy
consumption by 2011 , new Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors introduce the
world’s most energy-efficient x86 architecture, bolstered by a variety
of new power-saving technologies, including:
- AMD CoolCore(tm) Technology, for reducing energy consumption by
turning off unused parts of the processor;
- Independent Dynamic Core Technology, an enhancement to AMD
PowerNow!(tm) technology, allowing each core to vary its clock
frequency depending on the specific performance requirement of the
applications it is supporting; and
- Dual Dynamic Power Management (DDPM), which provides an
independent power supply to the cores and to the memory controller,
allowing the cores and memory controllers to operate on different
voltages, determined by usage. DDPM is available in most Quad-Core AMD
Opteron processor-based platforms being introduced today.
“Microsoft and AMD are working together to drive innovation, performance
and energy efficiency across the datacenters and development
environments,” said Bill Laing, general manager of Windows Server
Division at Microsoft Corp. “With 64-bit multi-core technology, Direct
Connect Architecture and built-in virtualization, AMD Opteron processors
continue to provide Microsoft Windows customers with an innovative
platform. Looking ahead, we believe Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008
and Visual Studio 2008 running with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors
will provide a compelling development and deployment platform to drive
customers’ dynamic IT environments.”
Optimal Virtualization Performance
Datacenters depend on virtualization software as an essential tool to
consolidate server workloads, operate more securely, and enable disaster
recovery. Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with Direct Connect
Architecture excel in virtualized environments because of the integrated
memory controller for reduced memory latency, and Rapid Virtualization
Indexing, a new AMD innovation in AMD Virtualization(tm) technology
designed to reduce the overhead associated with software virtualization.
Rapid Virtualization Indexing takes functionality that was previously
performed in software and greatly accelerates it by performing those
functions within the CPU to help enable near-real time application
performance.
Investment Protection
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors maintain compatibility with the socket
and thermal envelopes of Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors to
enable a seamless customer upgrade path. AMD’s common core strategy
empowers customers to scale with one AMD architecture to reduce platform
management complexity and increase datacenter uptime and productivity.
Outstanding Performance
Continuing the legacy of the AMD Opteron processor family, Quad-Core AMD
Opteron processors introduce several new ground-breaking technologies
enabling impressive results across a suite of benchmarks. Within
comparable thermal bands, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors outperform
the competition on several industry-standard benchmarks including:
SPECfp(r)_rate2006, SPEC(r)int_2006, SPECompM(r)2001Base, STREAM, Fluent
and LS-DYNA. For more details on the performance of Quad-Core AMD
Opteron processors, please visit http://www.amd.com/opteronperformance.
Visit AMD on the Web
For more information on the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor
including FAQs, development tools, online press kits and other general
information, please visit http://multicore.amd.com. Quad-Core AMD
Opteron processor pricing can be found at http://www.amd.com/pricing.
About AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of
innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer
electronics markets. AMD is dedicated to driving open innovation, choice
and industry growth by delivering superior customer-centric solutions
that
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www.amd.com.
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things, future and planned products, technologies, specifications,
features, performance and introductions schedules, and availability and
number of Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based systems, which are made
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could cause actual results to differ materially from the company’s
current expectations. Risks include the possibility that Intel
Corporation’s pricing, marketing and rebating programs, product
bundling, standard setting, new product introductions or other
activities targeting AMD’s business will prevent attainment of AMD’s
current plans; AMD will require additional funding and may not be able
to raise funds on favorable terms or at all; customers stop buying AMD’s
products or materially reduce their operations or demand for its
products; AMD will be unable to develop, launch and ramp new products
and technologies in the volumes and mix required by the market and at
mature yields on a timely basis; global business and economic conditions
will worsen; AMD will be unable to transition to advanced manufacturing
process technologies in a timely and effective way; and AMD will be
unable to maintain the requisite level of investment in research and
development and capacity, investors are urged to review in detail the
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filings, including but not limited to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended June 30, 2007.
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Industry Support
Absoft
“The new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor is exciting for our
customers because it is the first native quad-core solution on a single
piece of silicon. Further, the improved I/O, core and cache enhancements
allow higher performance while consuming less energy. This is exactly
what Absoft Fortran customers want for their HPC clusters and high
performance workstations. Absoft has been working with AMD to develop
new AMD specific optimizations for its latest Absoft Fortran compilers.
These newest optimizations show significant speed increases in several
areas and will be available to our customers soon. Absoft is committed
to further expanding our relationship with AMD and to continue providing
our customers with the highest performance available on AMD based
computing systems.” -Wood Lotz, President, Absoft Corporation
Advanced Clustering Technologies
“We’re very excited to see new technology entering the market that fills
the gap for many of our clients who require faster clock speeds as well
as high memory
bandwidth. This advancement offered by AMD will take many of those
clients to the next level not only with regards to density, but with
overall cluster efficiency.” -Shelly (Matthews) Kelley, Vice President
of Sales, Advanced Clustering Technologies
Angstrom Microsystems
“Angstrom’s compute hungry customers are looking forward to deploying
the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor. With our patent-pending cooling
technology, Angstrom offers 832 cores per rack, setting the mark for
high density liquid cooled AMD server solutions.” -Lalit Jain, CEO,
Angstrom Microsystems
ANSYS, Inc.
“We are very excited by the performance of our simulation and modeling
software on the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor. Innovation
based on simulation is a fundamental part of the product design and
development process, and our customers require optimized performance on
state-of-the-art microprocessor technologies. Our collaboration with AMD
allows us to fulfill those expectations, as the performance metrics
we’ve achieve clearly demonstrate.” -Jim Cashman, President and CEO,
ANYSYS, Inc.
Appro
“Appro XtremeServers and workstations powered by AMD Opteron(tm)
processors represent a value proposition based on improved performance
and memory availability for traditional high-performance computing (HPC)
and commercial applications, while adding reliability and flexibility
for our end-users with peak performance and outstanding value. Quad-Core
AMD Opteron(tm) processors improve our server’s value proposition
through an enhanced cache structure designed to boost performance and
increase data and efficiency handling, thereby reducing the latency of
accessing main memory, especially for compute-intensive multi-threaded
applications. In addition, the architecture drastically improves the
memory and I/O latency for HPC customers that are using 64-bit
applications, and it helps 32-bit applications run faster as well. In
the end, the importance of AMD’s native multi-core architecture is vital
for computational-intensive business productivity.” -John Lee, Vice
President of Advanced Technology Solutions Group, Appro
Arima
“AMD’s native quad-core architecture truly helps maximize the
price-performance equation. Arima develops server motherboard and
barebone products based on Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors because
of our confidence in the substantial benefit to our customers through
improved computation performance, bandwidth and performance-per-watt.”
-LC Tsai, President, Server Business Unit, Arima
ASA Computers, Inc.
“Selecting the right hardware and software is complex; the wrong choice
can be quite expensive. That is why our customers come to us for help in
choosing the right components for their web, mail, storage or general
purpose servers. It’s comforting to know that the innovative engineering
of ASA Computers matched with the exceptional performance-per-watt and
computing capabilities of Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors can
deliver scalable solutions for our customers now and in the future.”
-Arvind Bhargava, CEO, ASA Computers, Inc.
ASUS
“The Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor offers significantly improved
performance and scalability, as well as performance-per-watt. We are
confident of taking full
advantage of these benefits and providing high performance server
products to our customers with the new platform and dedicated ASUS
solution.” -Jerry Shen, Vice President, ASUS
Atipa Technologies
“The convergence of server technology and processor performance will add
up to enormous opportunities for business in health care in the remote
areas, as well as data interchange and virtual education across a wide
range of industries. Information services are another area that can
heavily leverage the superior performance of Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm)
processors. Federal, state and local governments are in desperate need
of centralizing the control of a balanced and efficient information
database. This will enable them to better embrace social concerns and
problem-solving law enforcement and finally build a world-class
information network.” -Dana Chang, Vice President, Atipa Technologies
Avnet
“During Avnet’s 35-year distribution relationship with AMD, we have
helped our channel partners be among the first to market with innovative
AMD-based solutions. Avnet is collaborating with global and regional
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems builder and value-added
reseller (VAR) channel partners to prepare them for developing complete
solutions based on the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor. We are
excited about the market potential for the new processors, and are
aligning Avnet’s sales and marketing efforts with AMD’s to drive growth
for channel partners in every region.” -George Condon, Senior Vice
President, Avnet Embedded Solutions, Avnet Technology Solutions
Broadcom
“We are pleased that AMD is launching its industry-defining native
quad-core microprocessors, Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors.
Working seamlessly with Broadcom’s industry-leading server I/O chipsets,
including the HT-2100 that leverages AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture
for design flexibility, Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors continue AMD’s
tradition of energy efficiency, performance and virtualization
leadership.” -Sean Conlon, General Manager, Chipset and Storage
Infrastructure Line of Business, Broadcom
Citrix
“The new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor will further enable our
customers to take full advantage of the high scalability – up to 500
users per server in our x64 edition – offered by Citrix Presentation
Server. The Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor will provide increased
server scalability and performance benefits so customers can easily
expand their application delivery infrastructure to deliver more
business applications to more users, while providing greater security
and business flexibility at much lower cost. The savings in space,
cooling and power make it a solid investment.” -Scott Herren, Group Vice
President and General Manager, Virtualization Systems Group, Citrix
Systems
Colfax International
“Our commitment to support AMD Opteron(tm) processors allows us to
deliver innovative solutions that also meet our customers’ increasing
demands for energy-efficient computing and investment protection. Our
latest collaboration with AMD has combined Colfax International’s
high-performing solutions with the benefits of the industry’s first
native x86 quad-core processor. Together with AMD, we are focused
on providing innovative technologies that matter most to our customers.”
-Mike Fay, Vice President, Colfax International
Cray Inc.
“Our customers are already achieving breakthrough results with the Cray
XT4 system and quad-core technology will allow them to solve more
complex problems faster, doing more accurate simulations. The Cray XT4
system was designed with quad-core performance in mind, and we have seen
early examples of excellent scalability and sustained performance with
Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors and our advanced Cray SeaStar(tm)
interconnect network. Quad-core will give new customers a big boost in
performance and a substantial total cost of ownership win. It will do
the same for our current customers at a low incremental cost, extending
the useful life of their existing Cray XT3TM and XT4 systems.” -Peter
Ungaro, President and CEO, Cray
Egenera
“The combination of AMD’s unique Direct Connect Architecture with
Egenera’s data center virtualization can deliver first-class performance
and memory capabilities for significant advantages in application
performance. AMD’s native Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors place
all four cores on a single piece of silicon so data can move between
cores at full speed for more efficient data sharing, which we believe
will help improve performance on memory-intensive applications in
virtualized environments. We’re pleased to further strengthen our
collaboration with AMD to meet the requirements of our enterprise
customers by continuing to deliver highly available, cost effective and
scalable solutions.” -Susan Davis, Vice President, Egenera
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
“In developing the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) 2300 Series processors, AMD
has demonstrated forward thinking, not only about the upgrade path to
simply introduce the latest and greatest processor to help enable
servers to run faster, but the new processors are also innovative in
their approach to energy efficiency and virtualization capabilities.
Overall, the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors ensure that Fujitsu
Siemens Computers PRIMERY RX330 servers are heavyweight performers for
compute-intensive database and virtualization applications in the data
center today – and tomorrow.” -Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice President
Enterprise Business, Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Gateway
“Our customers have been extremely pleased with our previous AMD
Opteron(tm) processor-based servers. Once again, AMD is bringing
leading-edge technology with significant benefits to our servers and,
ultimately, our customers.” -Tim Diefenthaler, Senior Director,
Professional Product Management, Gateway
GIGABYTE
“The Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor enhances existing
performance-per-watt capabilities with innovative power management
capabilities, and helps increase performance and efficiency of x86
virtualization solutions with enhanced AMD Virtualization(tm)
technology. GIGABYTE is happy to collaborate with AMD to offer server
solutions powered by the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, which will
help satisfy our customers’ need for high performance processing and low
power consumption.” -Etay Lee, General Manager of Network and
Communication Business Unit, GIGABYTE
HPC Systems, Inc.
“With customer-centric enhancements like Dual Dynamic Power
Management(tm) and AMD CoolCore(tm) technology, as well as core and
cache enhancements and a native multi-core architecture, Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(tm) processors help better address our customers’ need for high
levels of performance in the same footprint. We primarily serve the
scientific computing and research community working on complex problems.
The enhancements in the new native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are
definitely a big step forward in meeting their needs – better
performance without the need to revamp their full data center
infrastructure like power and cooling. Better performance, out of the
box. We are also very excited with the new standards in
performance-per-watt capabilities.” -Kalyana Chadalavada, Director of
Systems Architecture, HPC Systems, Inc.
Inventec Enterprise System Corp.
“We are extremely excited to support the launch of the Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(tm) processor. We strive to build solutions based on leading
innovative and reliable technology, and by adding AMD’s native quad-core
processor into our portfolio of offerings, we are able to significantly
broaden the choices available to our customers.” -N.J. Lee, Sr. VP of
Inventec Enterprise System Corp.
Microway, Inc.
“The AMD Opteron(tm) processor is built from the ground up to directly
address the demands of the HPC market. Critical features of the
processor, like its integrated memory controller and HyperTransport(tm)
technology, provide it with a clear advantage over the front side
bus-based architecture that has dominated the x86 space for many years.
AMD’s latest innovation, a native quad-core design with 4 cores on a
single die, enables programs that are not memory-bound to take full
advantage of the additional processing power. Programs that can
dramatically improve in speed include floating point intensive
computations, like FFTs, which have high data re-use rates; SMP
applications that make frequent calls, including transaction-based
business applications; and programs that depend on byte code
interpreters like JAVA to carry the work load. Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(tm) processors will change the face of high performance
computing.” -Stephen Fried, President and CTO, Microway, Inc.
MSI
“MSI is proud to maintain its strong relationship with AMD by supporting
the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor launch with a series of new
motherboards targeted for the server market. The Quad-Core AMD Opteron
processor is designed to offer better performance in the same thermal
envelopes as the current generation of AMD Opteron processors. The new
server motherboards provide high performance, high stability and an
increase in overall product efficiency. MSI continues to drive
technology leadership by supporting the first native quad-core processor
architecture in the x86-based computing market.” -Norman Tsai, Vice
President of Enterprise Platform Product Sales Division, MSI
Novell
“The strengths of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor mesh very well
with the capabilities of SUSE Linux Enterprise as Novell and AMD
continue to provide customers with innovative solutions at the front of
the market. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 is the first
production-level operating system to support the
enhanced virtualization feature of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm)
processor, known as Rapid Virtualization Indexing, as we are again one
of the first Linux vendors to embrace the newest technologies offered by
AMD.” -Roger Levy, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Open
Platform Solutions, Novell
NVIDIA
“We are proud to support the release of AMD’s Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm)
processors, a breakthrough native quad-core architecture that continues
AMD’s tradition of energy efficiency and performance. Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(tm) processors combined with NVIDIA nForce Professional
3000-family MCP products will deliver exceptional performance and
stability for the most demanding server and workstation applications.”
-Manoj Gujral, General Manager, Professional MCP Business, NVIDIA
Oracle
“Our customers look to Oracle and AMD for technology solutions that
lower their total cost of ownership. Based on everything we’ve seen, the
new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor will play a major role in
helping customers achieve their objective of lowering TCO.” -Charles
Phillips, President, Oracle Corporation
PathScale
“Over the past four years, AMD and PathScale have collaborated around
several common strengths; 64-bit multi-core scalability, outstanding
memory bandwidth utilization and optimal settings for a growing array of
leading-edge AMD specific architectural features. The PathScale Compiler
Suite provides software developers with excellent performance on AMD
processors and reduced development time due to outstanding GNU
compatibility. In this way, we help our system partners and developers
with real-world code to realize the enormous potential in this newest
Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor.” -Duncan Poole, Director of Product
Marketing, PathScale
PSSC Labs
“PSSC Labs is pleased to incorporate Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm)
processors in all of our product lines including our PowerWulf Clusters,
servers and workstations. AMD’s new native quad-core processor offers a
tremendous amount of computing power in a very small foot print.” -Alex
Lesser, Vice President, PSSC Labs
Rackable Systems
“As one of the world’s leading providers of AMD processor-based server
solutions, Rackable Systems is pleased to offer this next generation of
AMD64 technology to our customers. Our award-winning, build-to-order AMD
Opteron(tm) processor-based servers enable us to optimize system
performance, expand compute density and offer industry-leading
performance per watt to our customers at exceptional prices.” -Mark J.
Barrenechea, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rackable Systems
Rackspace Managed Hosting
“We’ve found that AMD Opteron(tm) processors are an incredibly reliable
platform for customers with multi-threaded applications or heavy
database usage. Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors coincide directly
with our GreenSpace initiative of lowering power consumption, which in
turn delivers great cost benefits to us that we can ultimately pass on
to customers. It is apparent that the processor was designed with
virtualization in mind, delivering near native performance on
virtualized applications and greatly improving virtualized application
performance by allowing
virtual machines to manage memory more efficiently.” -Nicolas Keller,
Director of Platform Products, Rackspace Managed Hosting
Red Hat
“Customers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with the
included Red Hat Integrated Virtualization for their server environments
will greatly benefit from the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors
with AMD Virtualization technology. Our testing has demonstrated
performance improvements of up to 4 times over earlier virtualized
systems due to the benefits of AMD VirtualizationTM with Rapid
Virtualization Indexing and optimized drivers. It is clear that now is
the time to update your server farms to the latest quad-core AMD based
systems running the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux software.” -Scott
Crenshaw, Vice President of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Line of Business,
Red Hat
Silicon Mechanics
“With enhanced performance and innovative power management capabilities
such as AMD’s Dual Dynamic Power Management(tm), our customers are eager
to realize the benefits of our solutions powered by AMD’s first native
quad-core processor. Since Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors operate
within the same power and thermal envelopes as dual-core AMD Opteron
processors, customers can benefit from quad-core technology without
compromising power consumption. It’s an exciting upgrade that can
increase capabilities without altering datacenter infrastructure.” -Dave
Bryan, President, Silicon Mechanics
Sun Microsystems
“Sun has a long history of providing solutions that define innovation.
The free and open Solaris 10 Operating System is leveraging more than 20
years of SMP expertise – with 64-bit computing since 1998 – and will
offer exceptional computing performance, security and virtualization
capabilities on AMD Opteron(tm) processor-based systems ranging from
single cores to 32-cores and beyond.” -Marc Hamilton, Vice President of
Solaris Marketing, Sun Microsystems
Supermicro
“Our quad-core A+ solutions deliver great value to customers in all
segments of the server and workstation marketplace. With a comprehensive
selection of high-quality Server Building Block Solutions to choose
from, Supermicro offers truly application-optimized Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(tm) processor-based platforms. The leading system-level power
efficiency of our cutting-edge server designs enables us to offer
earth-friendly solutions with exceptional performance-per-watt
capabilities that empower customers to grow, adapt and scale as their
business demands evolve.” -Alex Hsu, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer,
Supermicro
SWsoft
“The combination of AMD’s powerful, energy-efficient Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(tm) processors with the superior density and easy manageability
of our Virtuozzo operating system server virtualization software is a
true ‘green IT’ solution. As a solution that enables dozens to hundreds
of containers to immediately and automatically leverage AMD’s native
quad-core hardware, Virtuozzo enables exceptional datacenter efficiency
from administrative, ROI, and energy-consumption perspectives. We’re
thrilled to work with AMD to offer a solution in which businesses, IT
managers, and the environment all come out winners.” -Serguei Beloussov,
Chief Executive Officer, SWsoft
Tyan Computer
“Since the release of the Second-Generation AMD Opteron(tm) processor,
Tyan’s Thunder, Tomcat and Transport branded products have realized the
benefits of AMD’s industry-leading AMD64 technology to provide server
infrastructures with energy efficiency, remarkable performance and
system virtualization. This is an exciting day for our customers, as
they can now experience the significant increase in processing power and
performance output, that we expect from the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm)
processor, without dramatic upgrade requirements.” -Ryan Yang, Vice
President, Tyan Computer
Uniwide Technologies
“Uniwide Technologies is proud to announce our new platforms, the 1512
and 1514 barebone series. These 1U, 1P solutions will be powered by
Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) 2300 Series processors. Uniwide Technologies
is mainly a provider of 2P and 4P enterprise solutions, and this is the
first time we have developed a 1P solution. We truly believe in and
support Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors with their superior technology,
128-bit SSE floating point capabilities per core, a new, 2MB high-speed
L3 cache, and dynamic power management capabilities. Combined with our
experience with 8 DIMMs per CPU technology, we believe our new Quad-Core
AMD Opteron processor-powered platforms will provide high performance
with low power usage to help keep infrastructure costs down.” -Daniel
Kim, CEO, Uniwide Technologies
Verari Systems
“With its unrivaled power efficiency and computing density, our
environmentally responsible architecture and patented Vertical Cooling
Technology(tm) has been enabling the green data center for years. The
addition of Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processors to our line-up is
providing our customers with the ability to increase overall performance
while optimizing energy consumption.” -David B. Wright, Chief Executive
Officer and Chairman of the Board, Verari Systems
Virtual Iron
“We are pleased to support the launch of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm)
processor, including their Rapid Virtualization Indexing capabilities,
in Virtual Iron Version 4. With its native quad-core architecture,
simple plug-in upgrade and improved performance-per-watt, combined with
our enterprise class capabilities and performance supporting the most
advanced, policy-based use cases like HA and data center load balancing,
our many joint customers will immediately benefit from this next
generation AMD Opteron(tm) processor platform.” -Mike Grandinetti, Chief
Marketing Officer, Virtual Iron
VMware
“We see multi-core capabilities in the Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processor
as a perfect fit for virtualization. The Rapid Virtualization Indexing
feature of AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture enhances this combination
by smoothing out the performance profile across many workloads.” -Dr.
Stephen Herrod, Vice President of Technology Development, VMware
Western Scientific
“We are extremely excited to leverage Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm)
processors in our arsenal of solutions aimed at accelerating innovation
and driving down IT costs. Our
customers have greatly benefited from the advanced feature set and
industry leading performance-per-watt of AMD64 technology, and we
believe Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors usher in a new level of
high-performing, energy-efficient computing.” -Doug Johnson, Vice
President, Western Scientific
XenSource
“The Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) processor is ideally suited to
virtualization workloads. We believe that AMD’s Rapid Virtualization
Indexing technology will help to reduce the remaining overhead of
virtualization, and are pleased to offer support for this technology in
XenEnterprise v4, XenSource’s flagship virtualization platform, shipping
today to customers worldwide.” -Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer,
XenSource
ZT Systems
“ZT Systems is pleased to collaborate with AMD on the launch of this
groundbreaking new native quad-core server technology. Quad-Core AMD
Opteron(tm) processors provide a leading-edge solution that further
expands our server offering and capabilities for providing ultra
high-density, energy-efficient solutions. Our data center customers will
be able to benefit from the highest level of performance-per-watt within
our cost effective, custom solutions. As an AMD Platinum Solution
Provider, we see native quad-core solutions as a large part of our
expansive growth into the x86 server market.” -Rick Garian, Vice
President of Business Development and Strategy, ZT Systems