Cray Details Benefits of AMD "Istanbul"

Barry Bolding, VP of Scalable Systems at Cray, talks about the upcoming Six-Core AMD Opteron processor, codenamed "Istanbul." He details the benefits of Istanbul and what it will mean for their customers.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• AMD
• Opteron
• Istanbul
• Six-Core
• Server
• Cray
• HPC

[MachineMezziah]

I'm looking forward to see the performance of this new processor.

[lordcron]

Does anyone else think this guy sounds just like Bill Gates? I'm just saying..... Anyway....

[GameRemix]

Haha yeah, and he even looks like it too a bit.

[Xyb3rTeCh]

yeah... i think he does

[awdrifter3]

That's true I guess.

[martenlarsson]

Well, it could be because of CRAY and AMD not being the same company.

[awdrifter3]

"We usually test our systems for many months" Then what happened to the B2 Phenoms? How could they have not caught the TLB bug during testing?

[tenknics]

Industry leading 6-cores per socket? Uh, Dunnington has been out for awhile now, and I believe that is made by INTEL and I do also believe that it has 6-cores.

GJ AMD pr~!