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AMD Ships First "Bulldozer" Processors
AMD announced revenue shipments of the first processors based on its new x86 "Bulldozer" architecture. Initial production of the world's first 16-core x86 processor, codenamed "Interlagos," began in August and shipping to customers is already underway. Compatible with existing
AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series platforms and infrastructure, "Interlagos" is expected to launch and be available in partner systems in the fourth quarter of this year. Many of the initial shipments have been earmarked for large custom supercomputer installations that are now underway.
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AMD Creates a Private Cloud
AMD creates a private cloud to increase its own productivity, improve accessibility, lower costs and maintain its position as an industry innovator.
The results:
* Grew base compute resource capacity over 20%
* Achieved sustained utilization rate greater than 90%
* Saved over $6 million through in-place upgrades
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GE Global Research Acquires a Cray Supercomputer
The new Cray XE6m supercomputer will be used to support simulation-based engineering and science across the various disciplines at GE Global Research. The Cray system will give GE Global Research the ability to run more complex simulations in order to explore multi-physics challenges, gain higher fidelity insights and pursue areas of science and product development that could not be simulated using standard commodity clusters.
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Virtualization – Business Travel IT Grows with HP BladeSystem
Concur works with HP to reduce its physical server count by 40 percent, support 30 percent data growth, reduce
power consumption, reduce staff administration time, and reduce TCO by 10 percent.
Concur needed to pack more processing power into less hardware, while leaving room for growth. To this end, Concur began deploying an IT environment consisting of virtualized HP ProLiant server blades with
AMD Opteron processors nearly three years ago—a process that will conclude later this year.
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Microsoft Bing Maps Takes the Fast Route to Image Processing Efficiency with Dell Solutions
This video explores the challenges that an imagery technologies team encounters as they launch a new imagery-processing site. Given their data-intensive mission and the huge scale of their operations, the team requires enormous amounts of processing power, data storage capacity, and memory. Their goal was to bring on additional capacity to support current and future site goals at the lowest cost, in the fastest amount of time with the least amount of down time. They chose Dell solutions powered by
AMD Opteron™ processors to meet the challenge.
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AMD Helps STRATO Conserve Power and Meet Business Goals
Europe's second largest web-hosting service provider, STRATO, achieved their focus on more power and greater efficiency by turning
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AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers for energy savings and performance enhancements.
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1&1 Internet Launches Hexa-Core Servers
1&1 Internet Inc, the world's largest Web host by known servers, is the first Web hosting company to globally launch dedicated servers with Hexa-Core processors (also known as Six-Core AMD). 1&1 has expanded its server portfolio with two additional premium models for professional use as a Web or application server. The advantages include outstanding performance with high-level availability and supreme reliability, with the servers benefiting from excellent connectivity to 1&1's best in class data centers.
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