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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
Rising to the Top
Interesting statistics that show the strength of the AMD Opteron™ processor for high performance computing (HPC). Continue reading
Do the AMD Opteron 6100 Series Processor and the Intel Xeon 5600 Processor Have Similar Performance?
A few months ago AnandTech hosted a webcast with Intel and VMware to discuss the evolution of virtualization. They recently published a script of some of the discussion under the title Virtualization – Ask the Experts #1. A comment by … Continue reading
Unleashing creativity and productivity
AMD recently announced a new series of professional graphics products that are designed to unleash creativity and help improve productivity. These new ATI FirePro™ graphics cards feature a unique solution called ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology that expands the desktop workspace … Continue reading
I Never Bought a Nanometer
And neither have you. Seriously. I bought my first processor in a PC back in 1987. 12MHz. Yes, and that was considered “fast.” Back then, I worried about 2 things: performance and price. I could have splurged and bought the … Continue reading
AMD Opteron Processor – Delivering True Value, Not Just Benchmarks
I left the office yesterday at 5:00, headed to the trail for my weekly ride. Because of the recent rain, we shifted to City Park, one of the most technical mountain bike trails in Austin. If you just looked at … Continue reading
Is a Cloud a Cluster or is a Cluster a Cloud?
With the recent publication of several articles about using cloud computing concepts for High Performance Computing applications (here and here), I’ve been wondering about the applications for high-performance, low-power processors. There’s been quite a bit written here already about cloud … Continue reading
Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processor Codenamed "Suzuka"
Brad Pitt’s brother isn’t the only one to live in the shadows of a more famous sibling. The latest AMD OpteronTM 1000 Series processor, codenamed “Suzuka”, was launched in the shadow of its 6-core bigger brother, the Six-Core AMD Opteron … Continue reading
Building Blocks
How many times have we heard that a pocket calculator today has the computing power that put a man on the moon in 1969? I can remember my father, who was an engineer, showing me how to use a slide … Continue reading
That Five-letter Dirty Word
Value. There, I said it. Someone once threatened to wash my PowerPoint slides out with soap for using it. But customers care about it. Today, more than ever; but even in the crazy dot-com 90′s, people still gravitated to value. … Continue reading
