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
AMD Redesign Means Big Win for Healthcare: Barco Now Delivering Optimum Medical Imaging Through MXRT-5450
By Mitch Furman, senior product manager, Professional Graphics at AMD Back in February I wrote about AMD’s work with Barco’s medical imaging division to bring AMD Eyefinity technology to its customer base through Barco’s MXRT Series display controller products. This … Continue reading
Rising to the Top
Interesting statistics that show the strength of the AMD Opteron™ processor for high performance computing (HPC). Continue reading
Big Data and Cloud: This May Be the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
Over the past four blog posts from me and my colleagues at IDC, we’ve tried to alert you to one of the most important new developments in the IT landscape: the emergence of Big Data as a driver of business … 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
Tax Relief, 2011
We all made it through paying taxes this year. But, as always, some people paid more tax than others. If you were buying 4P servers based on Intel Xeon processors, you probably paid more than your fair share of taxes. … Continue reading
Letting the Data Speak: The Future of Public Sector IT is Cloudy
Ever wonder how the IT industry’s unabashed fixation on inundating senior IT managers with information on cloud computing has affected their plans to actually adopt cloud solutions? So did we, and our recently completed global survey of public sector CIOs … 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
Virtualization of Graphics Just Got Easier
At their Synergy conference today, Citrix announced enhancements to their XenClient offering, including dedicated graphics card support that enables the XenClient virtual machine to access industry-leading AMD graphics technology. Continue reading
