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Archived AMD Articles
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02 Apr 2009
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Sun Fire X4600 M2 Breaks World Record and Leads VMware VMmark Results [21510]
Unisys, HP, IBM Finish Second, Third and Fourth in Benchmarking Run
The impressive benchmarking results turned in by the Sun Fire X4600 M2 in running VMware VMark are helpfully interpreted by Tobias Esser in his blog, "Need a Proof? Here you go." The competition, third-place HP ProLiant DL785 G5 and the fourth-place IBM System x3950 M2, Esser asserts, were left in the dust. Compared to its rivals, the Sun Fire X4600 M2 delivered higher bandwidth with the same workload. The Unisys ES7000 Model 7450R was the second place finisher, Esser adds.
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01 Apr 2009
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Sun Fire X4600 M2 Enhanced Quad-Core Processor Board [21460]
With 8-DIMM Slots and High Efficiency Enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors
New enhanced quad-core processor boards are available for the Sun Fire X4600 M2. The boards come with 8-DIMM slots and 1 x AMD Opteron Model 8376 HE 2.3 GHz, ACP 55W Quad Core Processor. Available in an XATO (Assemble to Order) option and X-Option, customers of the Sun Fire X4600 M2 now have the choice of support for modular 2, 4, 6, or 8 quad core processors, allowing for more multithreaded applications to be run in this 4RU modular x64 server.
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17 Nov 2008
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Sun Blade X6240 Server Module [20827]
Supports Two-Socket AMD Opteron Quad-Core Processor
The Sun Blade X6240 system is ideal for running a wide variety of applications, ranging from the Web to application tiers. With the introduction of quad-core technology to the two socket blade market, horizontal consolidation and database workloads previously not even considered for this class of system, can now efficiently run on the two socket X6240 Server Module.
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13 May 2008
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Sun Expands Its x64 Server Line [19978]
Introducing the Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X4240 and Sun Fire X4440 Servers
Sun is expanding its line in the x64 server space with the introduction of the Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X4240 and Sun Fire X4440 servers, all of which are powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and offer a choice of operating systems, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), OpenSolaris operating system, Linux, Windows and VMware.
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12 May 2008
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AMD Operating System Research Center Supports OpenSolaris, Sun xVM [19935]
Focused on Optimizing Customer Performance
AMD has expanded its collaboration with Sun by including optimization and tuning advancements for the OpenSolaris operating system and Sun xVM Virtualization family of products at its Operating System Research Center (OSRC), which ensures that OS and virtualization software layers are optimized to leverage AMD processor-based platforms' features.
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