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Welcome
to AMD Opteron™ Solutions, an e-newsletter designed to
offer you valuable information on current products, partnerships,
promotions and much more from AMD that may help you make
well-informed purchasing decisions. Comments, suggestions, or story
ideas? Let us hear from
you.
As we celebrate the one-year anniversary of the
AMD Opteron processor for servers and workstations, we’d like to
say, “Thank you, customers and partners, for helping us redefine the
computing industry.”
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Celebrate AMD
Opteron — The Customer, The Experience, The
Future |
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The AMD Opteron processor with Direct Connect Architecture
addresses and helps reduce the real challenges and bottlenecks
of system architectures.
Experience
AMD Opteron…everywhere>>>
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64-bit Computing May Be Closer Than
You Think! |
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The move to 64-bit computing might be coming faster than
you may think. Why? Because customers are demanding the
breakthrough performance, price-performance, and scalability
that come with 64-bit systems powered by AMD Opteron and
AMD Athlon™ 64 processors.
To pave the road to
64-bit computing, Microsoft is sponsoring
free, one-day seminars in 14 locations around
the world focusing on Microsoft’s 64-bit Windows® platform.
The intent of these seminars is to help developers take
advantage of the sweeping change in technology offered by
64-bit computing.
At this free event developers can
learn more about the Microsoft product roadmap, market
opportunities, application compatibility and code migration
and get an architecture overview.
Sign up for a Route 64 seminar
today>>>
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The AMD Opteron Processor Brings
a Fresh New Face to NUMA Technology
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Not long ago Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture
was being dismissed as a niche technology. NUMA is a type of
memory architecture developed to overcome the scalability
limits of Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) architecture. In an
SMP system, all processors access a shared pool of memory over
a central memory bus. While this works well enough for a
relatively small number of processors, problems start to
appear when you have four or more processors. The result is a
major performance bottleneck (due to high contention rates) as
the processors fight for access over the single memory bus and
increased latency since it now takes a longer time for data to
move from/to the processor to memory.
Learn
more about the many benefits of NUMA>>>
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AMD Extends Its Relationship As
the Official Sponsor and Technology Partner of Scuderia
Ferrari Through 2006 |
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 For the Scuderia Ferrari team,
innovative solutions to achieve optimal performance are
essential. That’s what drove Scuderia Ferrari to turn to AMD
for technological solutions.
Read
more>>>
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Part 1: WOWing Your
32-Bit Applications with 64-Bit Windows® |
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The path to 64 bits is filled with 32-bit applications. No
data center is going to move its server applications to 64-bit
technology all at once, and consumers with 64-bit desktops are
still going to have a lot of 32-bit code for years to come. In
the first of a two-part series, Alan Zeichick explains how
64-bit Windows, running on the AMD64 architecture, supports
32-bit apps through a special subsystem called WOW64.
Read more from
Alan about 64-bit windows running on AMD64
architecture>>>
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