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Join The Green Grid and Take Control of Your Datacenter Power Consumption

Last week, founding sponsors AMD, HP, IBM, Rackable Systems and Sun joined with the United States Environmental Protection Agency/Energy Star and the Alliance to Save Energy to announce The Green Grid initiative.

The Green Grid provides a forum for information technology professionals interested in reducing power consumption in datacenters around the globe. As an open-to-all initiative, The Green Grid will announce other sponsors in the near-future.

In short, The Green Grid represents an effort to drive greater energy efficiency by focusing on power and cooling issues in datacenters. Thanks to the sharing of best practices, online discussion forums as well as business and professional relationships, it will help IT professionals pro-actively address one of the world ’s major concerns: energy usage.

Although the sponsors are working together to develop milestones and a long-term action plan, The Green Grid will be managed by its members and not its founders. Its goal is to ensure independent thought, idea-generation and action around the mission of the organization.

The Green Grid’s sponsors have offered founding memberships to several of the world’s largest datacenters, and are encouraging IT organizations across the U.S. to become more involved in managing power consumption in their datacenters through the sharing of best practices and participating in membership meetings and an annual summit

Visit www.TheGreenGrid.org today to find out more about its mission and how you can join The Green Grid and help take control of this global issue>>>

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Congratulations, AMD! Dual-Core
AMD Opteron™ Processors Win “Most Innovative Hardware Solution” Award at LinuxWorld® Conference and Expo in Boston, April 2006>>>

Celebrating the 3rd Anniversary of the
AMD Opteron™ Processor with Growing Market Share and New Validated Servers

Thanks to customers like you, we are proud to report that on this third anniversary of the launch of the AMD Opteron™ processor and AMD64 technology, AMD has seen an increase in its overall x86 server processor market share. According to Mercury Research, the AMD Opteron processor accounted for 22.1 percent of the worldwide x86 server processors shipped in the first quarter of this year, up from 16.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2005.

To mark the growing demand for AMD Opteron processor-based systems, we are also expanding our AMD Validated Server program with 12 new platforms offered by Newisys, Supermicro Computer, Inc., Tyan Computer Corporation and Uniwide Technologies, Inc. AMD Validated Server platforms are thoroughly tested for quality, compatibility, longevity and stability and are backed by global manufacturers who have met rigorous standards of performance and service in order to participate. The new platforms are available in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

“As the number of available AMD Opteron processor-based servers from our OEM and system builder community continues to rise, so does our share of the x86 server from both a market and revenue perspective,” said Henri Richard, Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, AMD. “AMD remains committed to working collaboratively with leading manufacturers to develop qualified, reliable and well-supported server solutions with industry-leading x86 performance-per-watt-per-dollar for the channel."

Learn more about the newly available AMD Validated Server platforms and see how safe and easy it is to add servers to your IT infrastructure>>>

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Don’t Miss the Latest AMD On-Demand Enterprise Online Event

Join us for the latest AMD in the Enterprise Online Event. Featuring an introduction from Hector Ruiz, CEO of AMD, this fifth event in the series addresses AMD’s alliances with Microsoft and HP, customer successes, and the issues of power management and efficiency in today’s datacenters. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, speaks about leadership in innovation, while Mark Potter, Vice President, HP BladeSystem, discusses the benefits of HP’s BladeSystem featuring AMD Opteron™ Processors. Marty Seyer, AMD Senior Vice President of Commercial and Performance Computing, further explores the power, heat, and cooling challenges datacenters currently face, and AMD’s leadership in enabling the industry’s best performance-per-watt platforms. Finally, Treb Ryan, CEO of OpSource, describes the advantages his company has realized by using HP and AMD technologies.

As always, the online event features downloadable whitepapers and case studies, interactive learning modules, product and partner information, as well as many other resources. We look forward to your participation!

See the latest AMD On-Demand Enterprise Event now and get more information on how AMD can help solve power and cooling challenges in your datacenter>>>

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At-a-Glance: Software Solutions that Support AMD64 Technology

Now you can quickly find applications that support AMD64 technology by accessing our newly redesigned AMD64 Ecosystem online guide. This online resource was designed to provide you with access to consolidated information on 32-bit and 64-bit software applications supporting AMD64 technology.

New features to the tool include:

• User Defined Search: Conduct a "Quick Search" by user segment or software category
  
  
• Feature Sort: Prioritize software information by Product Type, Product Category, Operating System, and/or Application Status (i.e. Available, Planned, in Beta, etc.) based on the information you are looking for

How does the tool work? Once you arrive at the AMD64 Ecosystem on our Web site, you will see a list of criteria you can base your search. You can also view further information by just clicking on the name of a software partner or application.

Navigate the Web-based AMD64 Ecosystem to find up-to-date information on software solutions supporting AMD64 technology>>>

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AMD Opteron™ Processor-Based APPRO XtremeServers Win ‘Product of the Year’ from SuperComputing Online

Appro’s XtremeServers were selected for Supercomputing Online’s '2005 Product of the Year' Award. The products were evaluated based on the following criteria: 1) innovation, 2) performance, 3) value, 4) ease of use and manageability, 5) ease of integration into existing environments, and 6) functionality.

Appro’s XtremeServers support Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors with leading-edge performance and memory flexibility that can scale up to 128GB, ideal for fast and accurate CFD simulations and for industries that are in need of supercomputing performance. Appro’s XtremeServers are designed to minimize overall power consumption and cooling requirements while delivering solid performance-per-watt capabilities.

“We are very pleased that Appro XtremeServer has been recognized by SuperComputing Online’s judges as one of the best products of the year,” said Daniel Kim, CEO of Appro. “Today, customers demand an innovative server architecture with excellent performance, flexibility and investment protection to scale across the enterprise. Appro XtremeServers address our customers’ needs by offering an innovative server design that boosts productivity and performance, providing a competitive edge in the high-performance computing market.”

APPRO 1U XtremeServer
Designed with enterprise HPC in mind, the new APPRO 1U XtremeServer can deliver super performance through a flexible, scalable design. A perfect foundation for supercomputing clusters for customers who require a flexible density-optimized 1U server, the APPRO 1U XtremeServer supports enterprise applications. Features:

• Up to two Single- or Dual-Core AMD Opteron 200 Series processors
  
  
• 8 DIMM sockets per CPU (up to 64GB of memory per server)
  
  
• Up to 800GB SATA or 292GB SCSI hot-swappable drives
  
  
• 1 PCI-X®, and 1 PCI Express™ x16

APPRO 3U XtremeServer
The APPRO 3U XtremeServer brings even more power, impressive memory scaling, and end-user flexibility. This server is ideal for large compute-intensive applications and offers flexibility, while delivering supercomputing performance and memory bandwidth. Features:

• Up to 4 Single- or Dual-Core AMD Opteron 800 Series processors
  
  
• 8 DIMM sockets per CPU (up to 128GB of memory per server)
  
  
• Up to 2.4TB SATA or 876GB SCSI hot-swappable drives
  
  
• Up to 2 PCI-X and 2 PCI Express x16
  
  
• Redundant power supplies and fans

Learn more about solutions from APPRO based on single- and Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors>>>

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