AMD selects HP blade servers

BANGALORE: AMD has purchased several HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades powered by AMD Opteron processors to support the development of its chip designs, HP said today.

AMD’s silicon design team will use the new systems for electronic design automation applications.

“HP’s Linux-based BladeSystem solution’s integrated consoles and power control help us to manage more servers without increasing our staff,” said Mike Lowe, director, Chipset Engineering, AMD in a statement.

“These new systems help AMD take advantage of the latest HP and AMD high-performance and power-saving technologies and dramatically increase the density of our world-class engineering design compute cluster to enable us to bring new generations of chip designs to market efficiently and cost-effectively,” he added.

AMD’s engineering design environment is based on an open-architecture run and managed with Linux and open source tools. The HP BladeSystem solution running Red Hat Enterprise Linux was implemented at AMD’s Sunnyvale, Calif., and Boxborough, Mass., design centers by HP Platinum and Linux Elite partner, Dasher Technologies.

“HP BladeSystem c-Class is helping customers move toward an automated, ‘lights out’ computing environment while reducing the costs and obstacles of a racked, stacked and wired environment,” said Winston Prather, vice president and general manager, High Performance Computing Division, HP.

The servers located at Sunnyvale and Boxborough will also provide computing power to engineering teams in Texas, Colorado and India, the statement added.

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