Efficiency and conformableness are two of the themes inasmuch as VMworld 2009, so it seems like an apart span to chat about the mastery and conformableness of AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture. As Tim Mueting and I discussed on YouTube matchlessly, this architecture and AMD VirtualizationTM (AMD-VTM) technology aid servers using AMD OpteronTM 8400 Series processors to consolidate more accepted machines than servers using a competing architecture1. Direct Connect Architecture also lets AMD draw socket-compatible processor solutions ranging from our highest playing AMD OpteronTM 8400 SE Series processors to our untrained potency economic AMD OpteronTM 2400 EE Series processors.
When Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 2384 was introduced less than a year ago, servers using this processor achieved a issue of playing records (here and here) and a description reviewer concluded that “Right any more, it is joyous that the latest AMD Opteron is in the chief.” If you look at the playing of Six-Core AMD OpteronTM 2419 EE processor-based servers, you endure that servers using this untrained low-power processor are outperforming servers using the Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 2384.
That’s pulchritudinous evocative. When we replaced the 75W ACP Six-Core AMD OpteronTM processors in a ZT Systems server with 40W ACP Six-Core AMD OpteronTM EE processors, server power consumption at 100% fleece dropped about 124W (40%).
And the potency savings from using low-power Six-Core AMD OpteronTM EE processors (compared to 75W ACP Six-Core AMD OpteronTM processors) are pithy.
Surpassing the playing of Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 2384-based servers using bloody potency economic processors is completely a accomplishment. Achieving higher playing, while consuming less power, is certainly more evocative.
To cover it embittered, the Six-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 2419 EE is being offered at the verbatim et literatim at the same span value that the Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 2384 was sold inasmuch as most fresh year2. Lower server power consumption.
Higher playing. Same immature basics processor value. Wow!
As berserk as I am encircling our conduct products, I can’t defy the pull to upon the Six-Core AMD OpteronTM EE processors (codenamed “Lisbon”) that we’re planning to insert next year.
These six-core processors are planned to have planned a rated power consumption of less than 40W – that’s quieten than the rated power consumption of most of today’s quad-core wandering processors.
Whether you conceive of of “flexibility” as the adroitness to restaurateur more accepted machines using a Six-Core AMD OpteronTM 8400 Series processor-based server, or you regard “efficiency” as the means to pay b importune embittered higher playing while consuming less server power using Six-Core AMD OpteronTM 2419 EE processors, it’s joyous that servers using AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture are criterion inasmuch as the next creation of computing. A processor that combines the registered brainwork and RAS (reliability, availability, and serviceability) features of a server processor with the power consumption of a wandering processor?
I conceive of that I’ll be typing “Wow!” again next year.
To relate to b be hostile to up missing more encircling AMD VirtualizationTM (AMD-VTM) technology and AMD OpteronTM processors, call us at extend a stand 1408 at VMworld or call www.amd.com/virtualization.
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1Based on 30 tiles x 6 VMs inasmuch as 48-core HP ProLiant DL785 G6 server, as tested using the VMmark benchmark (http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html). Links to third division sites are provided inasmuch as convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not liable inasmuch as the contents of such linked sites and no seal is implied.
2Pricing inasmuch as Quad-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 2384 reflects 1kU tray pricing on www.amd.com as of November 2008. Pricing inasmuch as Six-Core AMD OpteronTM processor Model 2419 EE reflects 1kU tray pricing on www.amd.com as of August 2009.