AMD brings Opteron 6000 Series for the Datacenter

AMD has announced the availability of a new server platform featuring the world’s first 8- and 12-core x86 processor for the high-volume 2P and value 4P server market.

The AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform addresses the unmistakable needs of server customers today – workload-specific performance, power efficiency, and overall value – while delivering more cores and more memory for less money. Leading OEMs including HP, Dell, Acer Group, Cray and SGI are introducing new systems based on this highly scalable and reliable platform.

“The AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform signals a new era of server value, significantly disrupts today’s server economics and provides the performance-per-watt, value and consistency customers demand for their real-world datacenter workloads,” said Ravi Swaminathan, MD & Regional VP – Sales and Marketing, AMD India.

Significant new power management features including a C1E power state to conserve energy when idle, the Advanced Platform Management Link allowing APML-enabled platforms to be remotely monitored for power and cooling, and AMD CoolSpeed technology, which automatically reduces p-states if a specified temperature limit is exceeded.

Not only this, AMD informed that C1E feature was completely designed and driven by the Indian R&D team.

The new AMD Opteron platform is chipset- and socket-compatible between 2P and 4P and will be compatible with the planned processors based on the next-generation AMD server processor core, code-named “Bulldozer”.