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“The PowerEdge R905 is a robust, well-priced, virtualization-optimized server. Equipped with four Opteron processors, 32 DIMM sockets, and seven PCIe slots, the R905 boasts the best performance in its market segment and excellent expandability. This is the server to beat when choosing enterprise virtualization hosts.”

InfoWorld
“2009 Technology of the Year Awards: Systems and Storage”

“Mr. Song Yuying, director of Digital Studio of the Beijing Planetarium, said: "At the very beginning, we examined all the different combinations of different systems available in the market. Finally we found that the ‘AMD+SUN’ solution would best meet our requirements.”

China Daily
“AMD Opteron-powered Beijing Planetarium sets world record”

"At the end of the day, that does not really matter. What matters is that the enterprise that wants to run a Java or an ERP application can run it on a server with an excellent performance/Watt ratio. The AMD and Intel platform are very close in this respect, but AMD pulls slightly ahead thanks to the lower power consumption when running at low load. In many cases, ERP and Java applications run at low load during some parts of the day. Many of the HPC benchmarks (Fluent, LSDyna) also give the AMD CPU an advantage."

AnandTech
"Sixteen Cores, Four Sockets"