AMD Opteron 6000 Series Platform Adopted by Various Products

AMD has announced that the Opteron 6000 Series platform's virtualization muscle has been adopted in products such as the award-winning Dell (News - Alert) PowerEdge R815 and the HP ProLiant DL585 G7.  

Ideal for virtualized environments, database, business applications, and high performance computing, the AMD (News - Alert) Opteron 6000 Series platform is built to excel when the workload gets tough.

In the early adopting world of high performance computing, the AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform's compatibility with the next generation 16-core processor, codenamed "Interlagos," has gained the attention of customers. To enable advanced scientific astronomical research in Brazil, the Astronomy Department of the University of São Paulo has selected the SGI Altix ICE 8400 for its high performance computing (HPC) system. The SGI Altix ICE 8400 will contain AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors, the company stated in a press release.

“Our partners continue to offer great examples of how the AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform can deliver superior virtualization within an impressive power and thermal footprint," said Patrick Patla, vice president and general manager, Server and Embedded Business, AMD. "The AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform offers budget-conscious IT managers performance and value today, and the promise of a future 16-core drop-in upgrade."

Available from OEMs, AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform-based systems powered by AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors are also available from system builders such as Acer, AMAX, Appro, Colfax, Cray Inc., Dawning, Dell, HP, IBM (News - Alert), Microway, NCS Technologies, Penguin, Rausch Netzwerktechnik, SGI, Silicon Mechanics, ZT Systems and more. New systems have been introduced by these partners in the past few months.

Recently, AMD announced the results of a global research study on adoption, attitudes and approaches to cloud computing, surveying IT decision makers in public and private sector organizations across the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The findings reveal both global and regional trends in cloud computing adoption and usage, highlighting the importance of both infrastructure and workloads in considering a cloud computing model.

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