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 |
 |
|
Even despite seemingly differing opinions on the subject, Advanced Micro Devices seems to think that buyers of central processors actually do prefer to see more cores in their systems, at least as far as the Opteron series of CPUs is concerned.Some time ago, AMD released not just 8-core, but also 12-core server micr... |
22 September 2010
09:33 GMT |
|
|
Advanced Micro Devices recently made the official introduction of its eight-core and 12-core server processors, known as the Opteron 6000 series or Magny-Cours, and now it seems that mothebroard makers are finally nearing the completion of their respective G34 platforms. Gigabyte is one of the first to offer one such... |
7 April 2010
06:49 GMT |
|
|
On the heels of AMD launching the Opteron 6000 CPU series, Microsoft is telling customers and partners that it has been working with the processor maker in order to ensure that Windows Server 2008 R2 plays nice with Magny-Cours. The new AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform feature 8-core and 12-core server processors des... |
30 March 2010
07:26 GMT |
|
|
The race for the fastest processor on the market has long been focused on increments of the processor core count, rather than enhancement of the processor speed. On that note, today, Sunnyvale California-based Advanced Micro Devices launched its latest series of Opteron processors, codenamed Magny Cours. The introduc... |
29 March 2010
12:09 GMT |
|
|
It is likely that Consumers are most interested, right now, in NVIDIA's upcoming DirectX 11 cards, as well as the six-core central processors that promise to enable a new generation of gaming experiences. Intel has already launched its hexacore chip, the Gulftown, and AMD is gearing up to release a whole collect... |
23 March 2010
06:59 GMT |
|
|
When approaching the server market, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have taken somewhat different approaches. Intel's chips focus on better performance with less cores, whereas AMD makes a point of adding more cores in order to provide greater server scalability. Intel's Xeon 5600 server chips only recent... |
17 March 2010
11:10 GMT |
|
|
Advanced Micro Devices has been working on its 8-core and 12-core ”Magny-Cours” server processors for a while and, according to a post on the company's official blog, the chips are already shipping to customers. Of course, AMD is already designing the next-generation processors, as it is necessary in... |
24 February 2010
04:58 GMT |
|
|
AMD's recently published CPU roadmap schedules the 12-core Magny-Cours processor for a 2010 release date. However, despite the fact that the chip is in its early design stage, information about the 12-core behemoth already started to emerge on the specialized forums. While Intel is currently using the MCM (mult... |
9 May 2008
10:35 GMT |
|
|
Find us on Google+
