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World's Highest-Performing Processors

Posted on: Sunday, 20 February 2005, 21:00 CST

AMD has announced the latest additions to the award-winning AMD Opteron processor family. Its new models, the 852 and 252, represent the world's highest-performing processors for one-way to eight-way x86 servers and workstations.

To enable original equipment manufacturers and system builders to take advantage of the next generation of I/O technology, AMD also announced the AMD-8132 HyperTransport PCI-X 2.0 tunnel, scheduled to ship for servers and workstations this month.

The latest addition to the AMD-8000 series of chipsets, the AMD- 8132 tunnel brings high-performance PCI-X 2.0 connectivity to AMD Opteron processor-based systems with increased throughput, improved RAS capabilities, robust data management and enhanced HyperTransport technology connectivity.

These models of the AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture bring the newest level of performance, so that the platforms launched by AMD's business partners are featuring the world's highest- performing 4P and 2P processors for 32-/64-bit computing.

Among the new models' performance-enhancing features are support for SSE3 software instructions as well as an increase in the HyperTransport performance through an increase in bus frequency, to 1GHz.

Server and workstation systems featuring the AMD Opteron processor will soon be enabled with AMD PowerNow! technology with Optimised Power Management. This technology helps to minimise overall power consumption for enterprise IT and workstation customers by decreasing strain on datacenter cooling and ventilation systems."

Industry support

With the support of more than 300 independent software vendors and open- source software organisations worldwide, representing 1,050 software packages, AMD64 technology has become the industry standard for simultaneous 32-/64-bit computing.

More than 40 per cent of the Forbes Global 100 companies or their affiliates are now using AMD Opteron processor-based systems. One of these is Hewlett-Packard, which is responding to customer demand for new levels of performance and price-performance by expanding its ProLiant and Workstation portfolios, and reinforcing its leading position in standards- based computing. Using the two new AMD Opteron processor models, HP has come out with high-performance, dense and power-efficient ProLiant blade servers.

IBM was the first major vendor to offer AMD Opteron processor- based servers. The high-performance A-Pro IntelliStation and the IBM e326, which has been designed to support the AMD dual-core specification, both continue to deliver the performance and flexibility that its customers demand. IBM eServer technology like the Xtended Design Architecture, when combined with the latest AMD Opteron processor models, has further enhanced its ability to meet customers' growing need as well as optimal performance per watt.

In the case of Sun Microsystems, Inc, its x64 (64-bit x86) systems powered by AMD Opteron processors have provided its users with the highest levels of performance and flexibility, to develop and deploy applications on virtually any operating system with seamless 32-/64-bit compatibility.

Said Lisa Sieker, Sun Microsystem's vice-president, Network Systems Group: "We recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of our alliance with AMD and will soon be celebrating an extremely successful first year selling systems based on the AMD Opteron processor. We've enjoyed rapid double-digit growth in these high- volume markets and look forward to continuing our successful collaboration with AMD."

Sun Microsystems currently has a robust line of AMD Opteron processor- based systems, including the Sun Java Workstation W1100z, Sun Java Workstation W2100z, the 2P Sun Fire V20z server and the 4P Sun Fire V40z x64 servers.

And as the latest solution provider to offer AMD Opteron processor-based servers, Egenera has announced two-way and four-way Processing Blade configurations for the Egenera BladeFrame system-a new computing architecture that simplifies the datacenter and reduces operational complexity to support a highly responsive business.

Source: Sunday Mail; Kuala Lumpur

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