New 4P Server by IBM Joins Record-Breaking AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series-Based Server Portfolio

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform, which redefined the server market by stripping away the long-standing “4P Tax” while driving record 2P and 4P performance, continues to add worldwide OEM partner platforms. Today IBM joins AMD’s global OEM partners, adding its x3755 M3 platform to a broad and powerful AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform portfolio now available for enterprise, HPC and SMB customers. In total, 45 unique AMD Opteron 6000 series-based platforms are expected to be available by the end of the year, including the HP ProLiant DL385 G7, Dell PowerEdge™ R815, and many others. Several of these systems will be on display at AMD booth #312 at this week’s VMworld conference.

AMD Opteron 6000 series platform-based systems by these global OEM partners include:


OEM	Rack	Blade
Acer	2P Acer GR385 F1 4P Acer GR585 F1 4P Acer GW2000h w/ GW175hx F1	2P Acer GB2x285 4P Acer GB685
Dell	2P Dell PowerEdge R715 4P Dell PowerEdge R815
HP	2P HP ProLiant DL165 2P HP ProLiant SL165z 2P HP ProLiant DL385 G7 4P HP ProLiant DL585 G7	2P HP ProLiant BL465c G7 4P HP ProLiant BL685c G7
IBM	4P IBM x3755 M3

Additionally, Cray is using the AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform to bring production petascale computing to a new and expanded base of high performance computing users with the recently-announced shipment of its first multi-cabinet Cray XE6 supercomputer.

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