As I watch Sports Center to keep up with latest college basketball season and monitor my March Madness bracket, I start to daydream a bit and begin to wonder. If I were on a Sports Center segment, how would I present the Dell/AMD roster of news worthy products to customers? 

What questions would I try to answer for customers? Does the Dell/AMD roster have the right blend of speed and performance? Is the Dell/AMD roster built with core fundamentals that customer can build a foundation with? Who is Dell/AMD’s MVP candidate, why are Dell/AMD my “go to products” in the clutch?

Here it goes-

Hello, I’m Armando Acosta, coming to you live from the Dell/AMD studios in Austin, TX. Today’s top news story is customers are still searching for “go to products” for building out their hyper scale-out computing environments.

For customers seeking a hyper scale server with outstanding performance per watt per dollar with power, space, weight and budget constrained data center environments, the Dell PowerEdge C6105 fits the bill. The AMD-based PowerEdge C6105 is a 4-node 2U shared infrastructure 2-socket server providing the ideal balance of power, price and performance required for scale-out computing. Your operating dollars go further when you reduce energy use by up to 29% over previous AMD processor generations¹.  Sports fans, you can take that to the bank.

Customers looking to maximize compute, memory, and I/O density per rack for massively parallel applications, Dell/AMD have the MVP-Most Valuable Performance, the Dell PowerEdge C6145. The Dell PowerEdge C6145 is ranked as the highest performing x86 2U shared infrastructure server on the market.²

In addition, the PowerEdge C6145 with up to 96 cores, 1TB of memory and 10 PCIe slots, can deliver up to a 509 percent better price per performance at a fifth of cost and a quarter of the rack space when compared to the previous top score, the HP ProLiant DL980 G7.³ What can you say about that kind of performance? It’s Awesome, baby! With a capital “A”!

Dell and AMD are teaming up to develop specific, customer focused products based on their workload needs.

Make the Dell PowerEdge C6105/C6145 with AMD Opteron^TM 4000/6000 Series processors your “go to product” in the clutch.

Armando Acosta is Data Center Solutions Product Manager at Dell. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s or Dell’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD and Dell are not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied

The results above reflect SPECpower_ssj results for the best performing 2P servers using AMD Opteron processor models 4164 EE and 2419 EE published on www.spec.org as of March 16, 2011.. 126W and 409096 ssj_ops at 100% of target load and 2106 overall ssj_ops/watt using 2 x AMD Opteron processor Model 4164 EE vs. 178W and 406954 ssj_ops at 100% of target load and 1614 overall ssj_ops/watt using 2 x AMD Opteron™ processor Model 2419 EE.

2The results above reflect SPECfp®_rate 2006 results published on http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q1/cpu2006-20110214-14557.html as of March 3, 2011, which show that the Dell PowerEdge C6145 is the highest performing x86 2U server. Configuration: 1310 using 8 x AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6180 SE in Dell PowerEdge C6145 server, 128GB (32 x 4GB DDR3-1333) memory, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 11 64-bit, x86 Open64 4.2.4 Compiler Suite.

3 Based on results for 8-chip x86 servers published on www.spec.org as of March 15, 2011, the Dell PowerEdge C6145 in 2U form factor achieved a SPECfp®_rate2006 score of 1310 while the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 in 8U form factor achieved a SPECfp®_rate2006 score of 1150.  Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.  HP ProLiant priced at $133,544 with a performance score of 1150 and price/performance of $116.13 vs the Dell PowerEdge C6145 priced at $24,997.42 with a performance score of 1310 and price/performance of $19.08.  (116.13-19.08)/19.08 = 509% better price performance.  

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