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PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer: Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...; Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-06-10
New AMD Opterons are good news for schools: New AMD Opterons are good news for schoolsYou need to get out more!The low power Intel designs have been out for months.And, with continuing competition, Intel will deliver what customers want.Isn't AMD great????Not a flame, just a question.I just happened to look today and saw that the AMD Phenom quads...; Tags: Processors, Servers, AMD Opteron, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Xeon, New AMD Opterons, server; Discussion threads 2008-05-13
New AMD Opterons are good news for schools: AMD, a company that has been struggling to compete meaningfully with Intel in the last year, announced new "highly efficient" quad-core processors for blade and rack servers. With energy costs increasing drastically and no relief in sight, schools looking to shave costs, as well as green their IT departments,...; Tags: Desktop, Data Center, Performance, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Thin Clients, Performance Management, Storage Management, Storage, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Components, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Dell rolls out AMD quad-core servers; AMD lands VMware certification: AMD plans to announce Wednesday that Dell is offering five quad-core Opteron server platforms and that the chipmaker has received VMware certification. Adding Dell to the fold brings the total number of OEM AMD quad-core systems to 13. Dell's AMD lineup is already surfaced on the PC...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Certification, Quad-core, AMD Opteron, VMware Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-15
At last, AMD ships quad-core Opterons: At last, AMD ships quad-core OpteronsPaging George Ou...ntLooking forward to the PhenomI'm looking forward to the "fixed" Phenoms. I'm ready to build a new PC and don't want to buy anything from Intel.Also, I want a TRUE 64 bit chip, not the 32 bit faking 64 of a Core2.Like...; Tags: Processors, 64-bit, Network technology, quad-core, register, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., processor; Discussion threads 2008-04-09

At last, AMD ships quad-core Opterons: After significant delays caused by a design bug, AMD is now shipping quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors in volume. Barcelona processors were delayed back in December of last year because of an L3 cache bug which caused applications to fail. Rather than ship processors containing the bug, AMD...; Tags: Quad-core, Barcelona, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-04-09
In search of...AMD quad-core Opterons: If you call an OEM today to get an AMD quad-core powered system, you're likely to get a pitch for an Intel system or an AMD dual-core chip. Why? Quad-core Opterons, those formerly known as Barcelona chips, are in short supply. The issue was...; Tags: Processor, Quad-core, OEM, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Wasson, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-03
Huawei ATCA Blade Server Powered by AMD Opteron Processors: When AMD first introduced the AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture in 2003, the target market was for servers in the datacenter. Back then, AMD had a new vision for how system memory and I/O interface to the processor core as well as the ability to create the world's...; Tags: Huawei Technologies, Blade Server, Server, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2007-10-22
AMD's Barcelona benchmarks: Omissions and disclosure matter: [Update 9/16/2007 - After doing a little more digging, it appears that SPEC's rules require the clear statement of a basis of comparison www.spec.org/fairuse.html rule 3.b. Without a basis of comparison, there's no telling what the marketing department is talking about. Without the basis of comparison, it's like calling someone...; Tags: Processor, Performance, Compiler, Barcelona, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Development Tools, Performance Management, Processors, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-09-14
Gallery: Barcelona's big day: AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, with a little help from his friends, hosts a coming out party for the quad-core Opteron chip. by George Ou; Tags: AMD Barcelona, AMD Opteron, George Ou; Image galleries 2007-09-11
Intel Tigerton and AMD Barcelona price list: Intel has launched the Xeon 7300 platform codenamed "Caneland" and the Core micro-architecture Xeon MP Processor codenamed "Tigerton". Since AMD is set to launch "Barcelona" quad-core Opterons next week and DailyTech leaked the Barcelona price list, we can now compare the prices for the new MP (multi-processor platform) CPUs. ...; Tags: Performance, Quad-core, Barcelona, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., George Ou; Blog posts 2007-09-08
AMD fans the flames with Barcelona pricing: The drumbeat for Barcelona is getting louder and louder. Advanced Micro Devices is widely expected to launch the new processor on Sept. 10—next Tuesday—at speeds of up to 2GHz in a number of cities across the world, including San Francisco and Barcelona, of course (link: here). AMD has confirmed that...; Tags: Processor, Barcelona, AMD Opteron, Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., John Spooner; Blog posts 2007-09-05
Informatica Powercenter 8 on Sun's AMD Opteron Processor Blade Servers: PowerCenter 8 is a single, unified enterprise data integration platform that allows companies and government organizations of all types and sizes to access, discover, and integrate data from virtually any business system, in any format, and deliver that data throughout the enterprise. The Enterprise Grid Option for PowerCenter 8 incorporates...; Tags: Informatica, Blade Server, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PowerCenter 8, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components; White papers 2007-09-01
Report: Xeon has regained most share lost to Opteron: It took a while for AMD's Operton chip to grab share from Intel's Xeon. The lead was lost in a quarter, according to a research report from Jon Peddie Research. In a report on workstation share, Jon Peddie Research noted that the popularity of AMD's Opteron chip peaked in the...; Tags: Intel, Hardware Infrastructure, General, AMD; Blog posts 2007-06-13
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System: Open Modular Architecture With a Choice of Sun SPARC , Intel Xeon , and AMD Opteron Platforms: The Participation Age is driving new demands that are focused squarely on capabilities of the datacenter. Web services and rapidly escalating Internet use are driving competitive organizations to lead with innovative new services and scalable, dynamic infrastructure. High Performance Computing HPC is constantly finding new application in both science and...; Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance Computing, AMD Opteron, Sun Blade, Sun Sparc, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Xeon, Intel Corp., Agility, Participation Age, Data Centers, Storage, Blade Servers, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2007-06-01
AMD Opteron Processors Deliver Outstanding Performance for Telecommunications Business Support Systems (BSS): Increasing challenges in billing systems demand reliable and scalable standard computing server technology with increasing performance to handle the increasing complexity and number of subscriber, service, and pricing data. COMARCH has tested a Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor-based server with its Billing System. Wherever there is a need for processing of...; Tags: Billing, Performance, AMD Opteron, Telecommunications, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., COMARCH, Telephony, Performance Management, Processors, Sales Channel, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Sales; White papers 2007-05-30
AMD gooses Opteron to 3 gigahertz: AMD gooses Opteron to 3 gigahertzI'm in for low-wattage processor,so for building my own server, I don't really care for speed and might plan to underclock and lower the voltage to the point that it will stay stable and perform good at low speed.But before I do that, I'm saving...; Tags: Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., processor, Intel Corp., AMD Opteron; Discussion threads 2007-04-21
AMD's Opteron 2222SE vs. Intel's Xeon 5160 using the SPECint_rate2006 test (AMD's Opteron 2222SE vs. Intel's Xeon 5160 ): AMD's Opteron 2222SE vs. Intel's Xeon 5160 using the SPECint_rate2006 test (AMD's Opteron 2222SE vs. Intel's Xeon 5160 )There is a problem in the control process.The rigs do not match in memory size, hard drives or operating systems. There is no reason for this because they are independent of the...; Tags: Processors, AMD Opteron 2222SE, Intel Xeon 5160, Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-04-04
Amidst questionable benchmarking choices, AMD "claims" speed title with new Opteron 2222SE: In a release of benchmarks that is could fuel the fires of benchmark controversy which are already blazing hot, AMD today is announcing the official release of its Opteron 2222SE processor. Its the 3 Ghz version of the dual-core Opteron (a 90 nm part of the Opteron family once code-named...; Tags: IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General; Blog posts 2007-04-04
AMD's Opteron 2222SE vs. Intel's Xeon 5160: Today (April 4, 2007), AMD released the 3.0 Ghz Opteron 2222SE processor along with some benchmark charts that show it outperforming Intel's latest dual core Xeon 5160. However, questions regarding benchmark methodology, selection, and presentation remain.; Tags: Processors, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Intel Xeon, dual-core, processor; Image galleries 2007-04-04