Riley Lewis is like a lot of kids today in that he spends hours in front of a computer screen. What makes him unique is the professional grade software and hardware that is a regular part of his busy schedule. Already an avid inventor, Riley started using SolidWorks® at the age of 11, when he used the program to do a failure analysis of his team’s entry in the prestigious Tech Challenge and helped make the design into an award winner at the event. His participation there caught the eye of SolidWorks’ CEO, and in a blink of an eye Riley was headed to the annual SolidWorks users’ conference to learn more about his new-found passion. Continue reading
Strong Like a Bull
Today, AMD has added a new technology partner to the AMD Opteron™ family. The French IT solutions provider Bull has announced their first bullx R family of supercomputers based on the AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series processors.
The bullx R family of supercomputers are available in a wide range of configurations and are an excellent choice for research facilities and industrial customers. Optimized for extreme computing, bullx features both compute and service nodes that are based on the AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors. Continue reading
Ruggedizing the AMD Embedded G-Series APUs for Demanding Industrial Applications
The embedded market isn’t traditionally associated with high-end graphics, but modern applications have become a lot more demanding in that respect. Whether it’s passenger information systems in public transportation showing HD video content, processing of high resolution video surveillance footage, medical imaging devices or massive multi-display installations in control rooms, there is a growing need for dedicated GPUs to handle the workload. Since a small form factor is often essential for industrial computer systems, the AMD APU concept of “a CPU and GPU on a single chip” makes them the natural choice to meet such challenges. Continue reading
Charting the Uncharted Waters
Last fall, as AMD announced the new AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series processors (code named “Interlagos”), there was an additional announcement that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications had selected Cray for their platform of choice for the Blue Waters project Continue reading
A Host of Choices
Why Rest? The sleepy town that sits on the border of Germany and France is home to WorldHostingDay, the global meeting place of hosters who join to share best practices, experiences and business strategies for the hosting business. There is no better place than this for launching our newest processor, the AMD Opteron™ 3200 Series processors. Continue reading
AMD Cores Power Bluelock’s Cloud Business
As AMD’s lead evangelist for enterprise customers, I’m always on the lookout for some interesting customer use studies. Recently I had the chance to sit down with Aaron Branham, Director of Technology at Bluelock, and a user of AMD-based HP ProLiant servers. Bluelock is an Indianapolis-based provider of cloud hosting solutions for the enterprise. Included below are highlights of my recent conversation with Aaron. Continue reading
Tying It All Together
The acquisition is actually the beginning of the hard work, not the end. Now that we have the SeaMicro technology in our portfolio, it is time to look at all of the products on the roadmap and figure out where the intersection of the two roadmaps will occur. Continue reading
A Little Clarity
The new Dell PowerEdge M915 blade brings a new level of efficiency to 4P servers with a world record score of 2,919 SPECpower_ssj®2008 overall ssj_ops/watt, giving Dell a lead over every other 4-socket server ever tested[1]. Continue reading
Your new AMD decoder key
We just finished the main presentations at our annual AMD Financial Analyst Day here in Sunnyvale, CA and as such the latest AMD 2012 public roadmaps are now available for your viewing pleasure. The roadmaps are full of new code names which I am happy to have the opportunity to decode for you. Continue reading
The Platform Matters
Just like server platforms. When you have a great platform, extending the life helps customers get more out of their investments, and that is a good thing. Now, for this discussion, let’s keep in mind that while I may put new fork lowers on a Fox Vanilla fork, most customers just aren’t going to open up a server and upgrade the CPU. Continue reading
