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Here's what they are saying
AMD is setting the pace in designing processors for high-performance computing, which in turn enables us to deliver products with exceptional sustained performance to our customers. The latest AMD Opteron™ processor further improves the AMD Opteron processor’s price/performance ratio and delivers increased HyperTransport™ technology capabilities, allowing us to build systems specifically for the HPC marketplace. As a result of our excellent alliance with AMD, both our Cray XT3 and Cray XD1 systems have been designed to be able to upgrade into this new AMD64 technology from day one, which offers our customers significant investment protection for a better total cost of ownership.
- -Peter J. Ungaro, Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Services, Cray Inc.
The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor launched by AMD sets the trend in the industry. Its seamless upgrade and Direct Connect Architecture are the advantages appealing to users. In the meantime, Dawning also launches servers based on Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors, enabling Chinese users to employ the world’s cutting-edge computing technology. Dawning is fully confident in the future of dual-core processors – a powerful trend-setter embracing and having in mind the future.
- -Li Jun, President, Dawning Technologies, Inc.
We applaud AMD’s pioneering work in both 64-bit computing and multi-core technology. The Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor offers customers an outstanding value proposition that includes exceptional price/performance. Our introduction of Processing Blades based on AMD64 dual-core technology has enabled Egenera to expand its market to applications previously reserved for high-end RISC/UNIX systems.
- -Susan Davis, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, Egenera, Inc.
Egenera has introduced AMD Opteron™ processor-based Processing Blades in response to market demand, demonstrating our commitment to creating a uniquely flexible computing environment for our world-class customers. Our focus on simplifying enterprise datacenters, reducing operational complexity and improving the application lifecycle is enhanced by our alliance with AMD.
- -Susan Davis, Vice President of Product Marketing and Management, Egenera
The key to solving the grand challenges and HPC problems lies in finding the optimal combination of awesome computing force and the innovative, complex codes that fully leverage that power. This combination of optimal software design and mighty hardware architecture is the holy grail of technical computing, and the combination of AMD’s multi-core or 64-bit architectures with Etnus TotalView, a premium development tool, plays a strong role in enabling such an elegant solution.
- -Mary Kay Bunde, Director, Market Development, Etnus
It is a great pleasure to celebrate the second anniversary of the AMD Opteron processor and the launch of Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors. AMD's technological leadership with AMD64 technology and Direct Connect Architecture is a key enabler for realizing Fabric7's vision of developing revolutionary application and service delivery platforms for the enterprise data center. The performance and scalability inherent in the AMD64 architecture enable us to offer unprecedented levels of flexibility and price/performance for our customers. With today's launch, AMD has yet again demonstrated its ability to execute. We appreciate AMD's diligence in listening to customers and working with us to help develop solutions that offer superior value.
- -Dr. Sharad Mehrotra, Founder and CEO, Fabric7 Systems, Inc.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT provider, will offer the CELSIUS V-810 workstation based on the AMD Opteron™ processor Model 252. Fujitsu Siemens Computers offers the CELSIUS V-810 workstation to satisfy the growing customer need for optimal performance and power consumption, as well as combining the latest technology with reliable support. Systems based on the AMD Opteron processor Model 252 deliver flexibility, performance and substantial customer-centric benefits to meet workstation needs.
- -Dr. Andreas Timmel, Vice President of Business Clients, Fujitsu Siemens Computers
The AMD Opteron processor has allowed our customers to continue to shorten design cycles and perform their analysis faster, giving them tremendous leverage of their computing investment. We are excited about the arrival of AMD's dual core processors to deliver compelling solutions for fluid dynamics.
- -Barbara Hutchings, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Fluent Inc.
We at Hard Data are really pleased with the direction AMD is taking with their AMD Opteron™ processor family. The latest processors continue this thread with an excellent price-to-performance ratio. Reasonably powered processors allow us to build more reliable 1U and Blade Servers. We are glad that AMD is looking at creative ways to increase performance without having to crank up the power usage.
- -Mark Lane, Sales Manager, Hard Data Ltd.
The release of the new AMD Opteron™ processor Model 252 will further strengthen Hypersonic’s Fusion™ Workstation offerings and provide users the power to handle demanding applications such as computer aided design (CAD), digital content creation (DCC), financial analysis and game development. Additionally, with AMD64 technology, our customers can take advantage of the scalability of 64-bit computing without sacrificing compatibility and performance for existing 32-bit applications.
- -Fred Kohen, President, Hypersonic
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