VMware’s “Day 0” Support for the New AMD Opteron™ Processor
VMware’s Chief Platform Architect, Rich Brunner, talks about the readiness of their solutions for the new AMD Opteron Processor. Continue reading
Laying the Tracks
I spend a lot of time on my bike riding through forests, down trails, and through some pretty remote places. I can always tell that I am coming up on new developments when I come across the telltale signs of … Continue reading
The Start of a New Era
Last week, we passed a momentous milestone in the life of “Bulldozer” – our first production shipments have left Singapore. Continue reading
Big World
As a fan of obscure 1980’s music, I always enjoyed Joe Jackson’s “Big World”, the only 3-sided record. Yes, I said record, and yes, I realize that dates me. Three sides to one record? Don’t most records have 2 sides? … Continue reading
Sharing Your Toys
When we are kids, we all have to learn to share. Unless you are an only child, I guess, but I never had that luxury. In computing, we find that sharing, or more specifically, open source, is a great way … Continue reading
Put a cap on that TDP
With the new TDP Power Cap for AMD Opteron™ processors based on the upcoming “Bulldozer” core, customers will be able to set TDP power limits in 1 watt increments. Continue reading
Core Scalability in Volume Rendering
Last year, as AMD introduced the 12-core AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processors, we held a contest about what you would do with 48 cores. While we received lots of crazy entries, there was one in particular that stood out from … Continue reading
Stop the Clocks
As a frequent traveler and a fan of semi-recent British rock, one of my “go to” albums when I travel and need to relax is Oasis’ “Stop the Clocks”. Yeah, I said “album”, and I also have a landline phone … Continue reading
Filling the Sockets
Let’s start off by saying that few, if any, server customers ever upgrade their server processors. There are a few notable exceptions, including the Jaguar and Kraken HPC clusters. With HPC clusters it is much easier to do mass upgrades … Continue reading
AMD at ISSCC: The Cool Kids
This week, at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the cool kids from AMD were hanging out and talking about “Bulldozer”, or, more specifically, some of the building blocks. Continue reading
