Recent content by JF-AMD

No, each card looks like one PC, there is not CPU coherence across the fabric. Think of this as aggregating all of the I/O out of the system. Like blades. Except incredibly more efficient. All network and drive traffic is virtualized and aggregated so you don't need that duplicated on every...

There are plans to use those cores in server products, not necessarily those dies. Server parts need to have server functionality. That means ECC plus some other things. We'll have big cores, little cores, GPUs, APUs, SOCs and the ability to tie it all together with fabric. It's a pretty...

It isn't about the systems, it's about the fabric. http://blogs.amd.com/work/2012/02/29/tying-it-all-together/

Well, we received both Infoworld's "Technology of the Year" and Linley's "Analyst's Choice" for Interlagos, so that makes the 2 right there. ding ding, we have a winner. It was a 2P comparison. 2P is 73.3% of the market, 4P is 4.4% of the market (Q3 IDC server tracker), so while 4P...

But you are ignoring the prices. At $4200, they are more than 4X the cost of the AMD processor. Would you pay $8,400 for 2 CPUs when for much less you can buy the whole AMD server?

You are absolutely right. Intel has an E7 2870 which is a 2-way 10 core, 20 thread processor. The performance is almost identical to AMD's 16-core 16 thread Opteron 6282. However AMD is priced at ~$1000. Intel is priced at ~$4200. Do you really believe that is a fair comparison...

It's a performance comparison. I chose my highest performance and their highest performance. From a power perspective we are about the same in power. From a cost perspective, thiers are ~$1600, ours are ~$1000. If you wanted to do a dollar for dollar comparison, we did that at launch...

Only selectively. people ping me if there is something they want me to address.

Can't comment on memory channels. But keep in mind that channels do not always equal more throughput. Memory latency and memory throughput are real measures that you can tie back to actual performance. Channel counts are less evenly correlated. Many of the older 3-channel systems had similar...

APUs are part of the vision but there are things that need to fall in place in the server world first (i.e. software) before that becomes a reality for Opteron. As to whether they would be single socket or dual socket would really depend on the market needs. I would say that we are still a...

If you look at SPEC benchmarks, which are traditionally the ones that are used to judge CPU performance, you would see that we are actually signifcantly faster than Intel: SPEC Int 26% faster: 543 for AMD http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2011q4/cpu2006-20111024-18714.html 432 for...

There are 3 kinds of products: Box Tray WOF Box is also referred to as PIB (processor in a box). On the client side I believe that box always includes a heatsink/fan, but you have to make sure that the SKU actually has "BOX" at the end. Boxed processors come with a 3 year warranty...

The PSU is whatever is integrated into the thremaltake chassis. I am guessing there is an opportunity to make it even more efficient. A Pico power supply could make the whole thing practically fanless based on how little power is being drawn. I have played around with linux from time to...

I put a blog up about this: http://blogs.amd.com/work/2011/07/18/the-home-front/ I really like the E-350. The old server was an HP MediaSmart 475 server, and I found that the E350 was way better than the sempron in the 475. As I recall, the HP was ~65W and the E-350 system was ~30W in...

I said Q4 in my blog and answered the question on client with Q4, that was at least 3 weeks ago, if not more. I wonder where all of these rumors keep coming from.