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SGI Announces Day One Support Of New SIX-CORE AMD Opteron Processors
2009-06-01
SGI Increases Energy Efficiency and Optimizes Performance with AMD Six-Core
Enabled Products
FREMONT, Calif. – June 1, 2009 – SGI® (NASDAQ: SGI) announced today the
immediate availability of servers based on the new Six-Core AMD Opteron™
processors (codenamed "Istanbul"). SGI will offer a wide selection of server
models that will use the new Six-Core AMD Opteron processors to help increase
energy efficiency, and ensure superior value and optimal performance for
demanding, real-world server and workstation application workloads.
"These new Six-Core AMD Opteron processors continue AMD’s leadership in
providing the hardware innovations that tackle demanding workloads with superior
speed and efficiency,” said Giovanni Coglitore, senior vice president and chief
products officer at SGI. "AMD’s energy-saving technologies can greatly benefit
the price-performance-per-watt in an existing data center footprint and,
together with SGI’s energy-saving server designs, help to greatly reduce overall
power consumption."
SGI servers with Six-Core AMD Opteron processors address core scale-out needs in
Internet and high performance computing markets such as federal government,
digital media, financial services, and oil and gas exploration. A wide variety
of models supporting the new processors are available, spanning SGI’s server and
storage product lines. Rack- and data center-level solutions are also available,
ranging from ICE Cube™ modular data centers, CloudRack™ C2 enclosures to
standard rack-mount products.
"AMD is excited to continue collaborating with SGI to deliver energy-efficient,
innovative technologies,” said Patrick Patla, vice president and general
manager, Server and Workstation division, AMD (NYSE: AMD). "Our newest Six-Core
AMD Opteron processors offer significant enhancements to our industry-defining
microprocessor technology, including performance-per-watt enhancements and
decreased power consumption for the most complex server and workstation
application workloads.”
Availability
A wide selection of SGI servers supporting Six-Core AMD Opteron processors are
immediately available. For information about specific configurations and
pricing, please visit SGI at www.sgi.com/amd.
About SGI
SGI® is a global leader in large-scale clustered computing, clustered storage,
HPC and data center enablement and services. SGI is dedicated to solving these
industries’ most demanding business and technology challenges. Visit
www.sgi.com for more information.
Contact Information:
Schwartz Communications, Inc.
Jen Spark
415-512-0770
SGIPR@schwartz-pr.com
SGI, ICE Cube and CloudRack are registered trademarks of Silicon Graphics
International Corp. All other trademarks are property of their respective
holders.
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and combinations thereof are trademarks of
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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