Today is an outstanding day! Why is my day so awesome, amazing and glorious you ask? Well today is the day I got to start up my very own setup at work which supports ATI Eyefinity technology. I’ll tell you more about the hardware in a minute but first let me explain why I am [...]

Introducing the first and only DirectX® 11 game developer tools!
At this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, AMD is unveiling the latest version of GPU PerfStudio, our free suite of graphics development tools for game developers. Over the last few months this latest version of GPU PerfStudio has been used extensively by the developers [...]

When it comes to the Oscars, I tend to find the fashion to be most interesting, along with the music, costume and set design awards.  I love movies, but my taste is all over the map and I don’t think I’ll ever get to the point where I’ve seen a critical mass of the nominees.
Honestly, [...]

Well, you might get your chance to show us.
The AMD Server team is kicking March off with a new contest.  We are seeking your best essays, videos, or blog posts documenting how you might use 48 cores.  One winner will be selected and awarded with:

Four new AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6174, 12-core (2.2 GHz)
TYAN S8812 [...]

Last week we hosted a server industry analyst event at the AMD campus in Austin.  The industry analysts are those sharp people that follow the server market’s every move and consult with many of the largest companies about IT strategies and technology while also publishing research and market trend data.  You’d know the names if [...]

That distant hum that you hear is the sound of the factory churning out AMD’s most advanced x86 processor ever. Yes, production of the new 8- and 12-core AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processors (codenamed “Magny-Cours”) is underway.
They started their journey weeks ago, in the German state of Saxony, where the GLOBALFOUNDRIES fab began the process [...]

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 16MHz processor, but 12MHz seemed like the best balance for me at the time.
23 years, and [...]

When you think of HPC clusters, do you think of power efficiency?  Most people don’t, but there is a strong case to be made for power efficiency in the HPC world.
One of the biggest challenges that high performance computing clusters face is the fact that they strive for 100% efficiency. Nobody will reach that level, [...]

Over the weekend, as I watched my wife’s beloved New Orleans Saints win their first Super Bowl, I reflected back on the decision that the Saints made to hire Sean Payton, Drew Brees, and Reggie Bush in 2006. It struck me how datacenter managers are doing the same thing – making decisions when selecting new [...]

I’m sure that got your attention.  Everything Apple does grabs attention and for good reason.  Their products are keenly attuned, most of the time, to what a strong segment of their target market is after.  Whether or not the iPad lives up to that historical precedent is still a question (I still prefer my HP [...]

Have you ever been in a situation where you walked in to a store to buy something, and came back home only to find that it didn’t work with your existing components or applications? It isn’t the same as walking in to the store with the intent to buy a Blu-ray disc, only to find [...]

While a good number of my AMD colleagues spent at least some of last week looking over the media coverage and assessing the success of CES, the embedded team was gearing up for the annual Taiwan Embedded Forum.
We almost always announce new products in conjunction with the event.  As our offerings for the embedded market [...]

If you follow my Virtualization Blog you know about my efforts to chip away facades – false, superficial or artificial appearances – around processor performance.   The first week of this new decade saw the façade of the Intel compiler crumble with a number of articles talking about how this compiler allegedly generated crippled code for [...]

As we embark on an interesting 2010 and even more interesting 2011, it is clear that the age of clock speed is behind us; it’s all about cores for the next few years until “Fusion-based” computing hits the server market.
And let’s be clear – AMD is designing its AMD Opteron™ processors to have the cores [...]

Every December we see the same year-end wrap ups: the top ten lists, the trends to watch, the lists of things that we should be thankful for, the predictions for the next year.
I like to be different, so let me just declare 2010 “The Year of the AMD Opteron™ Processor.” Perhaps that is the power [...]

Yes, it’s that time of year again.  Austin already dodged the “Great Snowpocalypse of 2009”, where there were actually more Facebook updates about the impending storm than actual flakes (flurries on 12/4/09 from 12:11-12:13PM.) Now it is time to actually get at all of those presents that I have under the Optertree.
The first box is [...]

A few weeks ago AMD presented its updated server strategy to the financial analysts. The big message – it’s all about the volume market, and we plan to target the “sweet spot” – where the majority of the server sales take place.
In my 17 years in the server business, I’ve never been more excited about [...]

 AMD at Work

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This week, at the SuperComputing 2009 event, AMD received the HPCWire Reader’s Choice Award for our Six Core AMD Opteron™ Processor (the one you know as “Istanbul.”)
When you consider that two of the largest High Performance Computing systems in the world (Oak Ridge’s “Jaguar” and the University of Tennessee’s “Kraken”) were recently and simply upgraded from [...]

I spent the last 2 weeks traveling in Europe and I can tell you that you can’t put enough emphasis on your companions.  When you are on the road with someone 24/7, you appreciate a good fit.  Whether it is the appetite for a good Schweinshaxe in Munich or the appreciation of a football game [...]

In the June 2009 TOP 500 list, the Oak Ridge National Labs’ “Jaguar” system was #2, edging close behind the “Roadrunner” cluster and was the first wholly x86 system to achieve a petaflop in performance.  Of course, both utilize AMD Opteron processors to reach their record shattering performance.
However, this summer, Oak Ridge embarked on a [...]

Fluendo released their DVD player for OpenSolaris today!

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The Sun-powered Ranger supercomputer, one of the most powerful systems in the world for open science research, has run about 1.1 million jobs in under two years. When it entered full production on Feb.

Many of you know Sun for our High Performance Computing systems. Well, Sun servers, storage, networking, and software are not the only parts of our high performance portfolio, we have some pretty high performance runners too, not to mention some of them are a bit competitive. To get into the competitive high performance spirit for this weekend's SC09 Sun HPC Consortium, we will kick of the day Saturday with a fun, not too competitive run through the streets of Portland.

What cuts costs of moving to 10GbE by up to 78% and requires only 1/6 the number of cables? Customers who have registered for the SC09 Sun HPC Consortium this weekend in Portland will be among the first to find out.