Sydney, Australia. – Nov. 5, 2012 — AMD today unveiled its new AMD Opteron™ 6300 series server processors based on its next-generation  “Piledriver” core architecture. The new AMD Opteron processors deliver superior performance and scalability for virtualised server platforms that are central to private and public cloud deployments, big data systems and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.  The AMD Opteron 6300 Series processors strike the ultimate balance between performance, scalability and cost effectiveness to help IT organisations lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

The AMD Opteron 6300 Series processors offer industry-leading performance in Specjbb2005, a server benchmark used to evaluate Java performance, with up to 24 percent higher performance versus the prior generation AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors1. Java is a critical element of the software ecosystem for next-generation datacenters. Performance per-watt is up to 40 percent higher than the prior generation solutions2, which means businesses running robust large-scale software systems will be able to enjoy high performance as well as low TCO.

AMD continues to drive HPC performance with the AMD Opteron 6300 Series processors by leveraging optimisations in compilers and libraries and combining it with the next-generation core architecture.  AMD has delivered impressive results in key HPC applications such as the molecular dynamics workloads LAMMPs and NAMD3.

“Across global IT organisations, cost-effective, scalable performance is a core requirement to support cloud computing, server consolidation, and highly threaded workloads common in HPC, big data and other areas,” said Suresh Gopalakrishnan, general manager, Server business unit, AMD. “The key to a winning solution for customers is working with OEMs and other solution providers to minimize TCO with a combination of cost-effectiveness and superior performance per-watt. AMD Opteron 6300 Series processors are uniquely positioned to be the difference-maker customers are seeking.”

Customer and Partner Traction
Servers based on the AMD Opteron 6300 Series from Dell and HP are expected to be available before the end of the year.  Systems and platforms are available today from Cray, SGI, Supermicro as well as AMAX, Appro, Asus, ClusterVision, Colfax International, Megware Computer, Microway, Penguin Computing, Silicon Mechanics and ZT Systems.  AMD’s own “Roadrunner” platform, developed for the Open Compute Project, will be available in Q1 2013. Moreover, AMD has already seen early traction with the AMD Opteron 6300 processor with a supercomputing deployment at Indiana University leveraging the new chip.

Key Facts, Performance and Technical Detail
•    Frequency: Up to 3.5 GHz base frequency and up to 3.8 GHz using AMD Turbo CORE technology for performance boost when applications demand it
•    Up to 16 cores per socket for scaling on thread-intensive environments
•    AMD-P power management features maximises performance-per-watt across workloads while giving IT managers more control over their data center power profiles
•    AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) technology for near-native performance in virtualised environments and lowest cost per virtual machine (VM)
•    Up to 4 memory channels with up to 1866 MHz memory
•    The only x86 processor to support ultra-low voltage 1.25v memory
•    Supports up to 12 DIMMs per CPU for up to 384GB memory per processor
•    Up to Four x16 HyperTransport™ technology (HT3) Links at up to 6.4GT/s per link

Pricing and Availability
Manufacturer: AMD
Product Name: AMD Opteron 6300 Series
Website: http://www.amd.com
Distributors: Avnet and Ingram Micro
Availability: Now
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Full performance details can be found at www.amd.com/opteronperformance; current pricing is available at http://www.amd.com/us/products/pricing/Pages/server-opteron.aspx. AMD will be formally launching its Piledriver-based AMD Opteron™ 4300 and 3300 Series processors (code-named “Seoul” and “Delhi”) in December. Details on those systems will be made available at that time.