The AMD Opteron 3000 series offering is designed for hosting customers who require dedicated servers for their customers.
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The Cray XK7 system contains 18, 688 nodes, with each holding a 16-core AMD Opteron 6274 processor and an NVIDIA Tesla K20 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator.
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In October the Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced an effort to build the world's fastest supercomputer, which will use AMD Opteron chips and 18, 000 of Nvidia's graphics-processing units.
Leading OEMs are now offering cloud, enterprise and HPC customers a full suite of solutions based on the industry's most comprehensive server processor portfolio, the new AMD Opteron family of processors which deliver an inspired balance of performance, scalability and efficiency.
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In April 2003, AMD released Opteron, a fancy new chip designed for servers.
So, according to AMD, Opteron, while technically a better mousetrap, never got to prove itself because Intel made sure nobody used it without paying a heavy price.
The system contains 18, 688 nodes, with each node containing an AMD 16-core Opteron and a NVIDIA Tesla K20X GPU accelerator.
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At first, Opteron helped AMD inch up its share of the server chip market from 4.1% in early 2003 to 6.9% 15 months later.
Now it is up to customer demand to deliver those top-line numbers--in particular, demand for flash memory chips in advanced cell phones as well as strong sales of AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor for computer servers, due to launch on April 22.
Apart from Sun, which has little love for Intel, AMD had trouble getting anyone to publicly endorse Opteron.
This upside is justifiable if AMD can replicate the success it had with the Opteron series of processors in 2006 with its bulldozer chips to be launched in Q3 as well as its growth in supercomputing technology.
While both Opteron and Itanium ran newer 64-bit software, AMD's chip was also backward-compatible, enabling it to run software written for older 32-bit processors.
Additionally, the new line-up of Opteron chips based on the Bulldozer micro-architecture further strengthens AMD?s ability to offer greater choices to a data-starved base of enterprises and growing cloud customers.
On Thursday, AMD announced the widespread availability of its new 45-nanometer quad-core Opteron processor ahead of schedule.
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