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Here's what they are saying
“The Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor enhances existing performance-per-watt capabilities with innovative power management capabilities, and helps increase performance and efficiency of x86 virtualization solutions with enhanced AMD Virtualization™ technology. GIGABYTE is happy to collaborate with AMD to offer server solutions powered by the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, which will help satisfy our customers’ need for high performance processing and low power consumption.”
- -Etay Lee, General Manager of Network and Communication Business Unit, GIGABYTE
“With customer-centric enhancements like Dual Dynamic Power Management™ and AMD CoolCore™ technology, as well as core and cache enhancements and a native multi-core architecture, Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors help better address our customers’ need for high levels of performance in the same footprint. We primarily serve the scientific computing and research community working on complex problems. The enhancements in the new native Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors are definitely a big step forward in meeting their needs – better performance without the need to revamp their full data center infrastructure like power and cooling. Better performance, out of the box. We are also very excited with the new standards in performance-per-watt capabilities.”
- --Kalyana Chadalavada, Director of Systems Architecture, HPC Systems, Inc.
“Microsoft and AMD are working together to drive innovation, performance and energy efficiency across the datacenter and development environments. With 64-bit multi-core technology, Direct Connect Architecture and hardware-assisted virtualization, the AMD Opteron™ processor continues to provide Microsoft Windows customers with an innovative platform. Looking ahead, we believe Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 running with the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor will provide a compelling development and deployment platform to drive customers’ dynamic IT environments.”
- -Bill Laing, General Manager of Windows Server Division, Microsoft
“The AMD Opteron™ processor is built from the ground up to directly address the demands of the HPC market. Critical features of the processor, like its integrated memory controller and HyperTransport™ technology, provide it with a clear advantage over the front side bus-based architecture that has dominated the x86 space for many years. AMD’s latest innovation, a native quad-core design with 4 cores on a single die, enables programs that are not memory-bound to take full advantage of the additional processing power. Programs that can dramatically improve in speed include floating point intensive computations, like FFTs, which have high data re-use rates; SMP applications that make frequent calls, including transaction-based business applications; and programs that depend on byte code interpreters like JAVA to carry the work load. Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors will change the face of high performance computing.”
- -Stephen Fried, President and CTO, Microway, Inc.
“MSI is proud to maintain its strong relationship with AMD by supporting the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor launch with a series of new motherboards targeted for the server market. The Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor is designed to offer better performance in the same thermal envelopes as the current generation of AMD Opteron processors. The new server motherboards provide high performance, high stability, and an increase in overall product efficiency. MSI continues to drive technology leadership by supporting the first native quad-core processor architecture in the x86-based computing market.”
- -Norman Tsai, Vice President of Enterprise Platform Product Sales Division, MSI
“The strengths of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor mesh very well with the capabilities of SUSE Linux Enterprise as Novell and AMD continue to provide customers with innovative solutions at the front of the market. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 is the first production-level operating system to support the enhanced virtualization feature of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, known as Rapid Virtualization Indexing, as we are again one of the first Linux vendors to embrace the newest technologies offered by AMD.”
- -Roger Levy, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Open Platform Solutions, Novell
“We are proud to support the release of AMD’s Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, a breakthrough native quad-core architecture that continues AMD’s tradition of energy efficiency and performance. Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors combined with NVIDIA nForce Professional 3000-family MCP products will deliver exceptional performance and stability for the most demanding server and workstation applications.”
- -Manoj Gujral, General Manager, Professional MCP Business, NVIDIA
“Our customers look to Oracle and AMD for technology solutions that lower their total cost of ownership. Based on everything we’ve seen, the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor will play a major role in helping customers achieve their objective of lowering TCO.”
- -Charles Phillips, President, Oracle Corporation
“Over the past four years, AMD and PathScale have collaborated around several common strengths; 64-bit multi-core scalability, outstanding memory bandwidth utilization, and optimal settings for a growing array of leading-edge AMD specific architectural features. The PathScale Compiler Suite provides software developers with excellent performance on AMD processors and reduced development time due to outstanding GNU compatibility. In this way, we help our system partners and developers with real-world code to realize the enormous potential in this newest Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor.”
- -Duncan Poole, Director of Product Marketing, PathScale
“PSSC Labs is pleased to incorporate Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors in all of our product lines including our PowerWulf Clusters, servers and workstations. AMD’s new native quad-core processor offers a tremendous amount of computing power in a very small foot print.”
- -Alex Lesser, Vice President, PSSC Labs
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