AMD demonstrates ‘Barcelona’
'Barcelona’ processors are expected to deliver up to 50 to 80% performance and performance-per-watt improvements on a broad range of server applications over similar current generation AMD Opteron processors.
In addition, these quad-core processors are designed to be drop-in compatible (following a BIOS upgrade) with all existing AMD Opteron processor-based systems using low-power DDR2 memory, while also enabling new platform capabilities.
Platforms displayed from Supermicro and Uniwide, participants in the AMD Validated Server programme, are designed to take advantage of a feature in 'Barcelona' processors called Dual Dynamic Power Management, which is intended to deliver power independently to the CPU and to the memory controller.
Another of AMD’s server infrastructure partners is ASUS. “We eagerly anticipate the widespread availability of AMD quad-core 'Barcelona’ processors later this year,” says Bernard Cheng, associate vice-president, server business unit, ASUS.
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