AMD 6-core Opteron Demonstration

6-core opteron codenamed “Istanbul”, upgrade to teh “shanghai” – Socket F style and 45nm with 6M of L3 cache. To be introduced in “Second Half” of the current year. Systems supported: 2P,4P and 8P with HT3 capability, 2channel DDR2 memory per socket.

Demo of Windows 2008 4P [24 cores] System:

More demonstration showed 2P system running Windows 2008 [main OS] & hosting 3 Virtual Machines: Windows 2003. Red Hat Linux & and SLES 11 x64, each V.M is dedicated with 4 cores.

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Courtesy: Tech Report