Author Archives: Margaret Lewis
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
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
Caching in on the Cloud with the Power of More Cores
Cache is a word you hear every day when you when you work for a silicon vendor. For CPUs, cache plays the very important role of reducing memory access by buffering frequently used data. But caching goes way beyond the … Continue reading
Mind the Gap – The Rise of Cloud Computing
AMD has launched a global cloud computing survey that gets at the heart of what matters to customers in the cloud around the world Continue reading
Simply Spectacular Virtualization – VMmark 2.1 and the HP ProLiant DL585 G7 and DL580 G7 Servers
The Simply Spectacular Virtualization blogs focus on virtualization performance evaluations of AMD and Intel server platforms. My colleague- and avid blogger- John Fruehe likes to tell me that evaluating virtualization based on performance is like trying to evaluate hybrid cars … Continue reading
AMD Open Source Challenge – the Answers
So how’d you do in this week’s Open Source challenge? To everyone who participated (and for those who just want to brush up on their open source trivia), here are the correct answers to the questions. The correct responses are in … Continue reading
AMD Supports Red Hat – Now Can You Beat Our Open Source Contest Challenge?
As an active contributor to the Linux Operating System and a board member of the Linux Foundation, AMD is a long time supporter of the open source software community. This year, we’re once again joining forces with engineers and developers … Continue reading
Simply Spectacular Virtualization – AMD Opteron 6100 Series Processor Hits the VMmark 2.1 Chart
AMD’s Margaret Lewis blogs on VMMark scores for the AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors. Continue reading
What a Difference a Year Makes – Accelerating Cloud Computing
AMD and IDC launch blog series on Accelerating Cloud Computing, kicking off with a look at the growth in data since we last asked, “how do you measure the growth of the cloud?” Continue reading
Simply Spectacular Virtualization – Just Don’t Take Our Word for It!
AMD has been filling its trophy case lately. Find out what hardware AMD has been taking home. Continue reading
