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AMD Opteron-Powered Cluster Goes Live at the Technical University of Ilmenau

ClusterVision, a company specialized in developing high performance compute, storage and database clusters, has announced the opening of a new HPC cluster system at the Technical University of Ilmenau based on Dell’s PowerEdge servers.The resulting HPC cluster consists of 49 Dell PowerEdge R815 servers with AMD...

16 January 2012
08:52 GMT

ScaleMP AMD Opteron-Powered Platform Claims Top SPEC Results

ScaleMP, a provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, announced recently that the company has managed to achieve a record-breaking result in the SPEC benchmark for shared memory systems based on AMD processors. The virtualization software developed by the company is designed to use off-the-shelf x86...

20 October 2011
07:26 GMT

AMD to Kill Athlon II, Phenom II and Sempron Brands by 2012

In the fourth quarter of this year, AMD plans to discontinue all products released into the popular Athlon II, Phenom II and Sempron product families, as the company will focus on its A and E-Series APUs as well as on the upcoming FX-Series processor line. AMD recently notified its partners that the last orders fo...

21 July 2011
02:50 GMT

Austria's Fastest Supercomputer to Date Is Powered by AMD Opteron CPUs

Austrian officials have recently held an inauguration ceremony for the Vienna Scientific Cluster 2, VSC-2 for short, which is now listed at number 56 in the TOP500 supercomputer list thanks to its 21,000 AMD Opteron processor cores.Built by the German company Megware, the system is able to deliver 135.6 teraflops of ...

4 July 2011
11:06 GMT

DoD Unveils Its Largest Supercomputer to Date, Powered by AMD Magny-Cours CPUs

The US Department of Defense has recently unveiled its largest supercomputer to date, a Cray XE6 system that is known by the name of Raptor and packs no less than 43,712 AMD Magny Cours computer cores and 87.7 Terabytes of system memory.The machine is installed at the Air Force Research Laboratory Supercomputing Reso...

11 March 2011
11:01 GMT

Tyan Announces S8010 Single-Processor C32 Motherboard for AMD Opteron 4100 CPUs

Tyan, one of the most well renowned server and workstation motherboard manufacturers, has just announced that it plans to introduce a new single-socket AMD Opteron 4100 C32 board, which was designed for cost-effective virtualization and cloud computing applications, during the upcoming AMD Server Summit. The Opter...

24 February 2011
07:45 GMT

Tyan Announces Two New Dual-CPU AMD Opteron Motherboards

Tyan has just announced two new dual socket motherboards that support AMD Opteron 4100 series processors, both of them being designed around the SR5690 and the SP5100 chipsets, and featuring as much as four PCI Express x16 slots.Taking a good look at the two motherboard, one would see these are pretty much identical ...

17 January 2011
11:22 GMT

Noctua Intros Two New Workstation Coolers Supporting the G34 Socket

Noctua has certainly made a name for itself in the enthusiast cooling market, but few of you know the Austrian company also builds cooling solutions for servers and workstations, Noctua just announcing the NH-U12DO A3 and NH-U9DO A3 coolers which come with support for AMD's socket G34 platform. Based on Noctu...

8 December 2010
02:40 GMT

Acer to Build AMD/Intel-Based Supercomputer in Taiwan

While we typically associate Acer to all sorts of consumer-grade computing products (after all, it's one of the world's largest notebook manufacturers), but the truth of the matter is that the company is also involved in all sorts of other projects, its latest involving the building of nothing less than a.....

17 November 2010
15:31 GMT

Toyota F1 Team to Use the AMD Opteron Supercomputer

The latest updates on the F1 Supercomputing says that Toyota replaced its Itanium 2 system with an AMD Opteron supercomputer. The old Intel Itanium 2 system used by the blue team has been recently replaced with a faster one. Some light on the supercomputing capabilities on the highly secretive F1 industry is shed by ...

23 April 2008
10:51 GMT

Cray's Petaflop-Scale Supercomputer: World's Most Powerful Machine

Cray is currently working on a next-generation massively parallel processor (MPP) supercomputer, that will be shipped to the University of Tennessee when it is finished. Probably the most powerful in the world, the petaflop-scale monolith will be used in scientific research, including global climate change research, ...

8 April 2008
11:04 GMT

Apacer to Stuff 8GB on a DDR2 Server RAM Module

Apacer has once again stunned the audience as it announced world's first high-capacity 8GB DDR2-667 ECC Registered DIMM memory module to be used inside high-end servers and workstations. Not long ago, the PC vendor announced a a 4GB DDR2-667 ECC Registered DIMM module, also to be used in server configurations.Th...

1 February 2008
10:52 GMT

Servers for the Next Generation: TYAN's flexBLADE

Without question, TYAN is one of the most important sever-manufacturing companies and, while its revenues or market share are not as impressive as those sported by Dell or other big-name providers, it is nonetheless a worldwide recognized brand. Right now, it looks like TYAN plans for some expansion, as the company h...

31 January 2008
07:59 GMT

Dell Servers For Europe, Africa and the Middle-East

Dell introduced two new servers for IT buyers, the PowerEdge 2970 and the Energy Smart 2970. The PowerEdge 2970 is stated to draw 34% less power and up to 105 percent greater performance per watt over the previous generation of dual core servers. The new special feature the servers have is the ability to upgrade seam...

11 April 2007
06:49 GMT


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