On the server side, AMD has been demonstrating various flavours of Linux as well as Windows for several months, and said that all major distributions of Linux would be finalised by the Opteron's launch.
The announcement of our upcoming AMD Opteron family is perhaps the most important single announcement in the history of our company. Indeed, AMD is looking forward to the second half of 2003, when it will begin shipping the Opteron in volumes large...
There is also the lack of a mature and integrated Windows development environment is lacking for Itanium 2 and AMD Opteron, he added. Recent benchmarks highlighting the raw power of the new version of the 64-bit Itanium 2 processor, known as...
With today's release of Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, customers can now fully realise the power of the AMD Opteron processor," AMD CEO Hector Ruiz said in a statement.
Speaking at the launch of AMD's new Opteron quad-core server processor in Barcelona - which is touted by the chip-maker as very virtualisation-friendly by enabling more virtual machines to be run per server - Ingle said: "This is all about data.
Roadrunner runs on 6,948 dual-core AMD Opteron chips on IBM Model LS21 blade servers, and 12,960 Cell engines on IBM Model QS22 blade servers. Cell broadband engines, used in the Play Station 3 (PS3), work in conjunction with AMD x86 processors.