6/05/2012 12:49:00 AM
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Texas-based CPU designer AMD is presenting today the company’s new Opteron server processors part for the 6200 and 4200 lines. AMD is proud to announce that these new processors are part of HP’s latest generation of ProLiant Gen8 servers.
The “Bulldozer”-based processors are also heading towards supercomputers in USA over at the National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters project, and as an upgrade to the famous “Jaguar” supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Labs. It is nice to see that AMD still supports and offers upgrades to its current supercomputing partners. Unfortunately, we hardly see Cray designing any other AMD-based supercomputers, as the company has sold most of its interconnect division and technology to Intel. Another supercomputing project that’s going to welcome the new “Bulldozer” architecture is Canada’s TELUS. HP’s servers already integrate AMD’s new Opterons as HP ProLiant Gen8 DL385p, a 2U performance-based rack server designed for virtualization, database and high performance computing workloads is already designed for the new, previously unannounced Opteron 6200 procesors.
The efficient, high-density HP ProLiant Gen8 BL465c is the first server blade with 2,000 cores per rack and will most likely offer support for the same type of workloads. “Since the launch of our latest AMD Opteron processors based on our “Bulldozer” core, we have seen steadily increasing demand for our high-end processors. The new additions to the AMD Opteron processor family, along with the latest offerings from HP and Dell, further strengthen our ability to offer greater choices to an agile and data-hungry base of enterprise and cloud customers,” said Lisa Su, senior VP and general manager, AMD Global Business Units.
The five new processors are standing proof that GlobalFoundries 32nm manufacturing technology has continued to mature over the course of the past six months and now the company offers new Opteron processors that run at a 100MHz higher frequency while using the same amount of power. The new 6200 Opteron processors launched today are the AMD Opteron 6284 SE and the AMD Opteron 6278. Both these processors are based on the Interlagos core using the Maranello platform with its 1944-pin G34 Socket.
They use 8 x 2 MB shared exclusive level caches and feature a huge 16 MB or level 3 cache. There are 16 cores able to handle 16 threads, but only 8 floating point units (FPU) are inside each processor. The integrated memory controller (IMC) works with DDR3 memory and there are four HyperTransport 3.0 links inside each CPU. The SE version is the highest performance Opteron part AMD has to offer right now and features 2700 MHz default frequency, with a 3100 MHz Turbo option for all 16 cores and a 3400 MHz option for a part of them.
To achieve such high working frequency, the Opteron 6284 SE uses and ACP of 104 watts and is designed with a total maximum power consumption of 140 watts. The non-SE Opteron 6278 version is a little modest on the frequency side and features 2400 MHz default frequency, with a 2700 MHz Turbo option for all 16 cores and a 3300 MHz option for a part of them. All these frequency cutbacks have been done in order for the processor to fit the maximum TDP of 115 watts.
The Opteron 4200 line of CPU include three new additions: the AMD Opteron 4276 HE, an 8-core 2.6 GHz processor with a 65 watts TDP, the AMD Opteron 4240 a 6-core 3.4 GHz CPU with a 95 watts TDP and the AMD Opteron 4230 6-core 2.9 GHz processor with a modest 65 watts TDP. All these Opteron 4200 parts use a 1207-pin Socket called C32 and feature 4 x 2 MB shared exclusive level 2 caches and an 8 MB level 3 cache.
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