Noile procesoare AMD Opteron ofera cea mai buna performanta, scalabilitate si eficienta

AMD a anunţat astăzi lansarea noilor serii de procesoare AMD Opteron™ 6200 şi 4200 (nume de cod “Interlagos” si “Valencia”).

Noile procesoare AMD Opteron au fost create să ofere companiilor:

• O mai bună performanţă pentru mediile de afaceri cu pâna la 84 procente în plusⁱ
• Scalabilitate crescută pentru Virtualizare  cu până la 73 procente mai multă lăţime de bandă, permiţând serverelor să suporte mai multe maşini virtuale şi să administreze fluxuri de lucru ridicateⁱⁱ
• Eficienţă ridicată pentru Cloud cu un consum de energie per nucleu redus la jumătateⁱⁱⁱ , un spaţiu de instalare mai mic cu 2/3^iv şi preţ al platformei redus cu 2/3^v

“Industria IT este la o nouă răscruce, virtualizarea a oferit un nou nivel de consolidare iar mediul de afaceri se orientează către Cloud pentru mai multă eficienţă şi agilitate. Am creat noul processor AMD Opteron special pentru acest moment,” a spus Paul Struhsaker, vicepreşedinte corporate şi manager general, Commercial Business, AMD.  “Aşteptarea pentru cea mai nouă şi dorită tehnologie de servere a luat sfârşit. Cei mai puternici integratori OEM oferă mediilor enterprise, cloud şi clientilor HPC o serie de solutii bazate pe cel mai complet portofoliu de procesoare pentru servere, noua familie de procesoare AMD Opteron care livreaza un echilibru ideal între performanţă, scalabilitate şi eficienţă.”

^{(click pe imagine pentru documentaţia în format .pdf)}

AMD a anunţat extinderea gamei de produse pentru 2012 prin adaugarea noii platforme AMD Opteron 3000 Series. Platforma AMD Opteron 3000 are ca ţinta pieţele 1P Web Hosting/Web Serving şi Microserver, foarte aglomerate şi cu eficienţă energetică ridicată. Primul procesor  lansat va fi cel cu 4-8 nuclee nume de cod “Zurich”, aşteptat pe piaţă în prima jumătate a anului 2012. “Zurich” are la bază arhitectura “Bulldozer” şi va fi integrat pe platforme AM3+. Seria AMD Opteron 3000 a fost creată pentru furnizori de servicii hosting care necesită servere dedicate pentru clienţii lor. Clienţii cloud şi web hosting apreciază economiile de costuri asociate cu o infrastructură accesibila ca preţ, dar doresc în acelaşi timp un produs competitiv cu funcţii de securitate şi fiabilitate ridicate, şi certificare OS.

Sisteme de la Acer, Cray, Dell, HP, IBM şi alti parteneri de canal sunt asteptate pe piaţa în perioada imediat următoare.

Functii cheie, performanţă şi detalii tehnice

• 89 procente mai multă performanţă^vi  în comparaţie cu cel mai cunoscut procesor al competitiei^vii la acelaşi nivel de preţ^viii
• Un portofoliu complet de procesoare de la 4- la 16-nuclee
• Eficienţă energetică fără egal, până la 4.375W per nucleuⁱⁱⁱ
• De la 24 până la 84 procente performanţe mai bune în cloud, virtualizare şi fluxuri de lucru^ix
• Cel mai mare scor 2P server TPCC
• Cel mai mic cost per maşină virtuală (VM)^xi
• Până la 4 canale de memorie cu frecvenţe până la 1600 MHz
• Singurul procesor x86 care suportă memorii la voltaje foarte mici 1.25v
• Suport pentru 12 DIMMuri de memorie  per CPU cu până la 384GB memorie per CPU

Detalii complete despre performanţe pot fi regăsite pe www.amd.com/opteronperformance

^{Despre AMD
AMD (NYSE: AMD) este o unul dintre inovatoarii din domeniul design-ului de semiconductori deschizând drumul către următoarea eră a experienţelor digitale prin inovatoarele sale unităţi de procesare accelerate AMD APU. Tehnologiile grafice şi procesarea de calcul AMD alimentează o varietate largă de dispozitive ce include PC-uri, console de joc şi puternicele computer ce susţin întregi afaceri.}

<sup>i 84% higher performance:  LINPACK (2P) AMD Opteron processor Model 6276  generates 84% more FLOPS than Intel Xeon processor Model X5670
- 239.1 FLOPS, 2 x AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6276 in Supermicro H8DGT server, 64GB (8 x 8GB DDR3-1600) memory, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 11 SP1 64-bit, gfortran compiler v4.6, OMPI 1.5.3, AMD Core Math Library 5.0.0.0
- Compiler Flags: -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -funroll-loops -W -Wall  -mavx -mfma4 –fopenmp
- 130.1 FLOPS, 2 x Intel Xeon processors Model X5670 in Supermicro 6026TT-BIBQF server, 24GB (6 x 4GB DDR3-1333) memory, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 11 SP1 64-bit, Intel Professional Compiler v11.1, OMPI 1.5.1, Intel Math Kernel Library 10.3, Hyper-Threading disabled, Turbo Boost Technology enabled
- Compiler Flags: -O3 -w -ansi-alias -i-static -openmp -nocompchk

ii 73% more memory bandwidth:
- STREAM (2P) AMD Opteron processor Model 6276  has 73% higher memory bandwidth than Intel Xeon processor Model X5670
- 73 GB/s, 2 x AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6276 in Supermicro H8DGT, 64GB (8 x 8GB DDR3-1600) memory, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 11 SP1 64-bit, x86 Open64 4.2.5-1 Compiler Suite
- 42 GB/s, 2 x Intel Xeon processors Model X5670 in Supermicro X8DTT server, 24GB (6 x 4GB DDR3-1333) memory, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 11 SP1 64-bit, Intel Compiler v11.1.064

iii 1/2 the power-per-core*
- As of Nov 1, 2011, AMD Opteron™ processor Models 4200 EE have the lowest known power per core of any x86 server processor, at 35W TDP (35W/8 = 4.375W/core).   Intel 's lowest power per core server processor, L5630, is 40W TDP (40W/4 = 10W/core).  See http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/prodbrief/323501.pdf.  Previous record held by AMD Opteron processor Models 4100 EE at 35W TDP / 6 cores = 5.83 W/core.

iv Requires 2/3 less floor space*
- VMs/rack (2P and 4P) One rack of 16-core AMD Opteron 6200 Series-based servers can support 672 VMs (1 VM per core, 2U servers)
- This would take three racks of floor space and 56 2U Intel Xeon 5600 Series-based servers to do the same.
- Assumes 1 VM/core, AMD Opteron 6200 Series-based 2P 2U server has up to 32 cores, supports up to 32 VMs/server x 21 servers per rack, which equals 672 VMs per server.  Intel Xeon 5600 Series-based 2P 2U server has up to 12 cores, supports up to 12 VMs/server x 21 servers per rack, which equals 252 VMs per rack, Intel specs as of 11/4/11 at www.intc.com/pricelist.cfm.

v Top bin comparisons.  Dell R710 with two top bin Intel Xeon processor Model X5690s is $7,103.  Since pricing for a Dell R715 with two top bin AMD Opteron processor Model 6282 SE (1ku $1019) is not yet available, the similarly priced AMD Opteron processor Model 6140  (1ku $989) was used and the server yielded a price of $4564.  That is a 36% price savings.  Both servers were configured with 32GB RAM, 146GB 10K hdd, and 3yr base warranty and large enterprise pricing is from www.dell.com as of 10/22/11.  HP DL 580 with four top bin Intel Xeon processor Model E7-4870 is $29,336 at www.dell.com.  Since pricing for an HP DL585 pricing with four top bin AMD Opteron processor Model 6282 SE (1ku $1019) is not yet available, the similarly priced AMD Opteron processor Model 6140 (1ku $989) was used and the server yielded a price of $11,094.  That is a 62% price savings.  Both servers were configured with 64GB RAM, 72GB 15K hdd, and 3yr base warranty and large enterprise pricing is from www.hp.com as of 10/22/11.  VMware vSphere pricing not included, assuming both servers configured with versions 5.0 or 4.1u2, which are the same price for AMD- and Intel-based servers.

vi SPEC and SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.  The results for AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6276 is based upon data submitted to Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation as of November 7, 2011.  The results for Intel Xeon processor Model E5640 reflect results published on http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results as of November 7, 2011.  The comparison presented above is based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6276 and Intel Xeon processor Model E5640, operating at each processor’s default frequency.  For the latest SPECint_rate2006 results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results.  SPECint®_rate2006 score = 480, 2 x AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6276 in Supermicro A+ Server 1022-URF server, 128GB (16 x 8GB DDR3-1333) memory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, x86 Open64 4.2.5.2 Compiler Suite.  SPECint®_rate2006 Score = 253, 2 x Intel Xeon processors Model E5640 in Cisco UCS C210 M2 , 48GB (12 x 4GB DDR3-1333) memory, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1, Intel C++ Compiler XE Version 12.0.1.116 Build 20101116

vii Source: Mercury Research, PC Processors and Chip Sets Updated Edition 3Q2011
viii 1ku pricing is $788 for the AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6276 and $774 for the Intel Xeon processor Model E5640

ix 84% higher performance:  LINPACK (2P) AMD Opteron processor Model 6276  generates 84% more FLOPS than Intel Xeon processor Model X5670
- 239.1 FLOPS, 2 x AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6276 in Supermicro H8DGT server, 64GB (8 x 8GB DDR3-1600) memory, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 11 SP1 64-bit, gfortran compiler v4.6, OMPI 1.5.3, AMD Core Math Library 5.0.0.0
- Compiler Flags: -fomit-frame-pointer -O3 -funroll-loops -W -Wall  -mavx -mfma4 –fopenmp
- 130.1 FLOPS, 2 x Intel Xeon processors Model X5670 in Supermicro 6026TT-BIBQF server, 24GB (6 x 4GB DDR3-1333) memory, SuSE Linux® Enterprise Server 11 SP1 64-bit, Intel Professional Compiler v11.1, OMPI 1.5.1, Intel Math Kernel Library 10.3, Hyper-Threading disabled, Turbo Boost Technology enabled
- Compiler Flags: -O3 -w -ansi-alias -i-static -openmp –nocompchk

24% higher performance: SPEC and SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.  The result for AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6282 SE is based upon data submitted to Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation as of Nov 7, 2011.  The results for the Intel Xeon processor Model X5690 reflect results published on http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results as of November 7, 2011.  The comparison presented above is based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6282 SE and Intel Xeon processor Model X5690, operating at each processor’s default frequency.  For the latest SPECint_rate2006 results, visit http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results.  SPECint®_rate score= 526, 2 x AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6282 SE in Supermicro A+ Server 1022-URF server, 128GB (16 x 8GB DDR3-1333) memory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, x86 Open64 4.2.5.2 Compiler Suite.  SPECint®_rate score = 421, 2 x Intel Xeon processors Model X5690 in NEC Express5800/R120b-1 server, 96GB (12 x 8GB DDR3-1333) memory, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1, Intel C++ Compiler XE v12.0.3.174

x The results for AMD Opteron™ processor Model 6282 SE are based upon data submitted Transaction Processing Performance Council as of November 11, 2011. The other results stated above reflect results published on www.tpc.org as of November 11, 2011. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing two-socket servers using AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6176 SE and 6282 SE and Intel Xeon processors Model X5690. For the latest TPC-C results, visit www.tpc.org. 1207982 tpmC using 2 x AMD Opteron™ processors Model 6282 SE in HP ProLiant DL385 G7 server, 512GB memory, Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition SP3

xi Highest VMmark score for blade servers using 2 Host configuration with the BL685c G7 system - 28% higher score with 17% more VMs than the BL680c G7 running 10-core Xeon</sup>