Author Archives: John Fruehe
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
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
Oranges and Cores
The Dell PowerEdge R415 is a great product for those small and medium businesses that need the expandability for their growing business but are also short on space. Continue reading
Lightening the Load
Today, Inphi is announcing that they have validated the new by Inphi iMB™ memory for the AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform. 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
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
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
A Big Boost
This isn’t a parlor trick that requires only one or two active cores in order to boost; this is a serious technology that works across as many as 16 cores – simultaneously. Continue reading
