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News AMD demonstrates 24-core Istanbul Opteron server

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Sifter3000, 20 Feb 2009.

  1. Sifter3000

    Sifter3000 I used to be somebody

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    Sifter3000, 20 Feb 2009
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  2. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Well damn, that puts my 8 cores to shame.
     
    Firehed, 20 Feb 2009
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  3. DarkLord7854

    DarkLord7854 What's a Dremel?

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    The main advantage AMD have is the upgrade ease.. Rather neat honestly
     
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  4. murtoz

    murtoz Busy procrastinating

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    You mean that same upgrade ease intel had when going from tigerton to dunnington?
     
    murtoz, 21 Feb 2009
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  5. HourBeforeDawn

    HourBeforeDawn a.k.a KazeModz

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    Well it was my understanding that AMD pretty much had the server market, I mean every where I go I see AMD based servers over that of Intel, at least here in Cali. Either way wow 24 core sheesh thats nuts, So like is both companies still going to stop after 32 cores and switch from Multi-core tech to Many-Core tech.
     
    HourBeforeDawn, 21 Feb 2009
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  6. kenco_uk

    kenco_uk I unsuccessfully then tried again

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    Why didn't they run something like SuperPi?
     
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  7. n3mo

    n3mo What's a Dremel?

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    Oh lol.

    Anyway, AMD owns the High-Performance market, Dunnington is basically no match for Istanbul. Intel's chips traditionally scale awfully - what's the use of six cores when the performance is closer to a dual-core?
     
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    Want.

    'Nuff Said.
     
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  9. Sara

    Sara What's a Dremel?

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    Check out two videos of Istanbul's demos. The first video indicates the consistency of AMD's architecture and upgrade from the Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors to Six-Core AMD Opteron Processors (Istanbul). The second video shows Istanbul running on a 2P virtualization platform, highlighting Istanbul's virtualization capabilities.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLbGQ8oraKg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D11uY5dOE2c

    Also see Istanbul images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amd_unprocessed/

    Plus view a blog post written by John Fruehe, Director of Business Development for Server/Workstation products at AMD here: http://blogs.amd.com/work/archive/2009/02/24/istanbul-not-constantinople.aspx
     
    Sara, 26 Feb 2009
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