Barcelona, \u200b\u200bits first quad-core chip, is now in over 50 configurations. The processor was announced in Barcelona with the main manufacturers in the industry.
Barcelona finally arrived, the most important step taken by Opteron family of server CPU for AMD, since its release four years ago. And it is in a key moment, because the red rampant in the last two quarterly reports of U.S. manufacturer and Barcelona can revitalize the accounts and, especially, the expectations of shareholders. However, in view of some
partners and experts, the new quad-core chip (Quad Core) AMD knows the light too late, since Intel went ahead and put on the market its first range of four cores in late past. However, Barcelona is loaded with incentives for companies that are thinking about improving the capacity of its data centers. One concept that catches on this processor is the performance per watt. The company speaks of a metric, ACP, which is the acronym of average consumption per CPU. Like a car is involved and the spirit of the times, energy savings have become a powerful marketing and technical argument, we can say that Barcelona is much faster and spend little. The company, which provides no concrete data about it, it says, as a curiosity, if the 2.4 million servers of all kinds will be sold in Europe in 2007 incorporated the Quad-Core, the continent would cut $ 500 million bill for the light and the atmosphere would save two million tonnes of harmful CO2. Barcelona These reductions achieved through the incorporation of technologies such as CoolCore, which reduces power consumption by turning off unused parts at one time or the system Dynamic Independent, an update of the famous PowerNow!, Which allows each core to vary its frequency clock in accordance with the requirements of the application processor Sopot at all times. Also, Barcelona is also committed to DDR2 memory, which AMD says, requires much less energy (less than one-fifth party) FBDIMM memory.
Performance-wise, the manufacturer claims that its first quad-core processor is 26% more powerful than the Intel Xeon 5345. In addition, it has been proven that up to 50% improved performance of its predecessor, the Dual Core Opteron. However, those who do not believe it, are results of many tests conducted in recent months on page www.amd.com / opteronperformance. One of the major transitions taking place now in the IT departments of companies is virtualization. To expedite this matter, which has become the panacea for managing computing environments is widely dispersed and heterogeneous, AMD claims that your processor is optimized to work with VMware software reference in this field. In addition, the effect of introducing more cores than its predecessor means that customers will be able to virtualize
more machines without an added cost. The explanation is that both VMware and Microsoft receive their licenses based on the number of sockets, not cores . Sunset over Barcelona in Barcelona How could it be otherwise, Barcelona was the setting for the coming-processor in Europe with the same name [the global launch was completed meetings in New York and Shanghai]. The announcement of the Catalan capital attended by staff of AMD in the EMEA region, some of its largest customers and a number of technology partners that are already putting on the market or processor platforms that have adapted solutions. HP, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens and even Acer, which has a very focused offering in the SME and not normally configured machines for data centers, clothed with AMD, as well as VMware and Novell / SuSE. In total, in the coming weeks will be sold worldwide over 50 server models with Quad-Core AMD, a figure that will increase as production lines and warehouses come out the previous Opteron Dual-Core. Alberto Macchi, the Italian who holds the reins of the brand of processors in EMEA, recalled how much things have changed since AMD took the campaign four years ago and went with Opteron in the server area, a preserve of Intel to that date. At that time, barely seven platforms were announced with a product that revolutionized the market and has made over the years with good market share. In Spain, the share of AMD in the segment of x86 server chips is unusually high, reaching, according to the company itself, 25%. This means that about 30,000 new machines per year are inside an Opteron.
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