14 DAY TRIAL // As the central processing units manufacturer AMD announced the official launch of its native quad core Opteron line of processors intended for servers and workstations, Asus announced the release of its own motherboard that offers support for those CPUs. The innovative KFSN4-DRE series server board and RS161-E5 server system from Asus come with advanced design lines and they are targeted at the high performance computing market.
Both of these latest Asus products come with a number of integrated technologies, like Dual Dynamic Power Management and Dual Link, in order to make the most of the new platform processors built by AMD around a native quad core design. The new Asus mainboard is specifically designed for AMD based servers and it comes equipped with the two processor sockets and memory slots placed in the front part of the unit as this design will help the servers achieve a better operating temperature, which can be with 20 or even 30 percent lower that the temperature found on machines using the traditional design.
Supporting up to 16 memory slots and being able to house a maximum of 64Gb of DDR2 high speed memory, the new Asus motherboard for servers helps customers achieve the best computing power that can be reached through the use of AMD quad core Opteron central processing units, while maintaining a high memory availability for virtual workloads which are specific to the current enterprise computing environment.
As all Asus server designed motherboards are compatible with AMD's PowerNow! Standard, datacenters will feel the energy cost reduction that is derived from the ability to reduce the processors' running speed during non peak workloads and idle times. Alongside the reduction of energy consumption, the AMD power efficiency leads to lower running temperatures, so the cost of cooling is diminished too, alongside the risk of heat damage. The first to integrate this new motherboard is the upcoming ASUS RS161-E5 server, which will come equipped with two quad core Opteron processors and it will be packed in a 1U server system. The rack-mounted design is going to offer the best thermal solution and a high scalability for easier future upgrades. As the new server comes with Asus' Smart Fan II technology, it will provide quiet working environments with less power consumption, because it is able to automatically adjust its cooling systems based on the ambient temperature and the workload level.
''Next-Generation Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors make an outstanding improvement in performance-per-watt. Dual Dynamic Power Management ready platform will have a significant performance gain and power-saving. ASUS KFSN4-DRE series server board and the RS161-E5 server system are the optimal server platforms for supporting AMD Opteron multi-core processors,'' said Billy Wang, Corporate Vice President of Greater China Sales, AMD, in an Asus press release concerning the two server products.