Think about your target demographic. What is in their living room? Perhaps a high-definition flat-panel television with a Blu-ray player and a blockbuster 3D movie in the tray, the latest generation videogame console, a ticket stub for the latest 3D … Continue reading
An Update for your 2012 Schedule(r)
Our new AMD OpteronTM 6200 and 4200 Series processors are on the road to achieving optimal efficiency in 2012 with the recent release by our OS partners of improved scheduling techniques for their popular operating systems. Continue reading
Technology of the Year
Those that follow this blog may recall that in 2011 AMD received the prestigious award for best parallel processing CPU in the “Technology of the Year” article from InfoWorld for our AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processor… Continue reading
The Locker Room
With the new AMD Opteron™ 6200 and 4200 Series processors, software can take advantage of the new AES-NI instructions that are integrated into the silicon and deliver greatly increasing performance for security processes that utilize AES encryption. Continue reading
Improving Medical Imaging Diagnoses
The end of November brings Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but more importantly it brings RNSA – radiology’s annual confab in Chicago, on the shores of Lake Michigan. We’ve attended this show for five years, meeting with our customers and … Continue reading
Payments in the Cloud
Credorax has announced an update to their proprietary NextGen ePower™ Payment Processing and Acquiring Platform that now features the AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor. What is really interesting about this product is that this is the first acquiring platform that is designed for both online commerce and in-house bank services under one roof since Credorax is a principle member of Visa and MasterCard. Continue reading
Crunching Terabytes Down Under
About 150 years ago my ancestors left England on a ship, bound for Australia. Little did they imagine, as they plowed through the Indian Ocean, that one day ships might be running through those same waters trying to find new reserves of oil miles below the ocean’s surface. Continue reading
Simply Spectacular Virtualization – VMware and the AMD Opteron 6200 Series Processor
I spent much of my time around the launch of the AMD OpteronTM 6200 Series processor working with the HPC-related ecosystem. This was an exciting time for the AMD Opteron processor with a strong showing in the TOP500 and our hardware partners like Cray, SGI, Appro and Penguin posting support of our new technology. Continue reading
New Levels of Performance from a 17 Year Partnership
By McLeod Glass – HP Director of Marketing, Industry Standard Servers and Software This is especially true in the case of our most recent announcement. HP is leveraging our decades of industry leadership, our experience solving customer problems, and our … Continue reading
Watts Per Core
I spent this week in Beijing, mostly for the AMD Opteron™ 6200 and 4200 Series processors launch event, but in addition to that, I wanted to spend some time with customers, especially cloud customers, who care not only about the performance and value that AMD can bring to the market, but are also concerned about power. Continue reading
