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Experience the Power of More Cores with AMD at VMworld 2011
AMD will showcase the Power of More Cores as a platinum sponsor of VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, August 29th through September 1st Join us at Booth #311 where we will showcase HP and Dell servers featuring our AMD … Continue reading
OpenStack Hitting Critical Mass
Last week several folks from AMD participated in the OpenStack Design Summit in Santa Clara. It’s impressive to see how much traction this project has gained since its announcement last year. 550 people showed up for the two day event … Continue reading
AMD and I/O Virtualization on "Magny-Cours" Processors
Enhanced AMD-Vi in Opteron 6000 (a.k.a. “Magny-Cours”) Platform Architecture: Virtualization is the art of abstracting or hiding the “implementation” from the “experience”. Thus the notion of various system components – CPU, MMU, and devices – presented to the Guest Virtual … Continue reading
New Virtualization Article
Check out this new article in the Java Zone: Optimizing Java Performance in a Virtualized Environment. It’s based on a JavaOne 2008 Tech Session of the same name by Shrinivas and Azeem, which provided a good overview of how to navigate … Continue reading
IOMMU
This article is about AMD’s IOMMU, coming up in future server chipsets, what it does, how it works and why it is important. What it does IOMMU stands for I/O Memory Management Unit and works very similar to a processor’s … Continue reading
Boosting KVM's performance with nested paging
As opposed to XEN, KVM is an in-kernel hypervisor for Linuxtm that lets you run unmodified guests like Linux (both 32 bit and 64 bit) as well as Windowstm in every kind of flavor. KVM requires hardware support like AMD’s … Continue reading
Introducing the AMD Operating System Research Center Blog
Hello from AMD’s OSRC. Let me give a brief introduction of who we are and what our job at AMD is. Founded one and a half years ago, we have grown to a team size of roughly two dozen people, … Continue reading
