Expanded Channel Support Drives Availability of AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series-Based Products for HPC, Enterprise and SMB Environments

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AMD today announced additional infrastructure and channel support for its AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform, the world’s first 8- and 12-core x86 processor, addressing the needs of server customers worldwide with its unprecedented price/performance/watt.¹ Since introducing the AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform earlier this year, the continued expansion of channel support and product lineups has helped drive a broad portfolio of highly customized solutions, available for small and medium businesses, enterprises and HPC environments.

Adding to the growing list of AMD Opteron 6100 Series-based channel products deployed in high-performance computing (HPC) environments, a major institution of higher education in Europe recently selected 2U, GPU-optimized Twin servers from AMD channel partner Supermicro for its flagship supercomputer. Furthermore, a nationally ranked research university in the United States recently deployed a 324-node/100 Teraflops system from AMD channel partner Appro to help solve critical research science using AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors.

The latest products available by AMD channel partners include the Appro GreenBlade™ System for small to mid-size HPC deployments, the SGI^® CloudRack™ C2 server for large-scale Internet and cloud computing deployments, ZT Systems 2210Ra 2U Datacenter Server designed for efficiency and cost effectiveness, and many more.

AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform-based solutions are now available by these global Elite and Premier level channel partners:


Americas	APAC/Greater China	EMEA
Appro	Dawning	Bull
Colfax	Digicor	Delta Computer
Directron	G-Server Made	E4
Microway	MiTAC Inc.	Kraftway
Nortech	NOVATTE	MEGWARE
Penguin		Niagara
SGI		Pyramid
ZT Systems		Rausch
		Supermicro UK
		Sysgen
		T-Platforms
		Transtec

AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform-based solutions are also available by the following infrastructure partners:

AMD Channel Infrastructure Partners

ASUS
Gigabyte
Supermicro
TYAN

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¹Based on SPECfp®_rate2006 results published on www.amd.com/opteronperformance as of March 29, 2010. The other results stated above reflect results published on http://www.spec.org/cput2006/results as of March 17, 2010. 514 (est.) using 4 x AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6136 ($744 each) vs. 257 using 2 x Intel Xeon processor Model X5680 ($1633 each). The comparison presented above is based on the best performing four-socket servers using AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6174 and the best performing two-socket 210294

servers using Intel Xeon processor Models X5680. Pricing reflects 1KU tray pricing on www.amd.com and www.intel.com as of March 23, 2010.

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