Open Stan­dards-based AMD Opte­ron pro­ces­sor eco­sys­tem deve­lo­p­ment enables a seam­less expe­ri­ence from x86 CPUs to x86 APUs

SAN FRANCISCO— April 16, 2014 — Red Hat Sum­mit 2014 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced ano­ther major mile­stone in the deve­lo­p­ment of its enter­pri­se soft­ware eco­sys­tem with the first public demons­tra­ti­on of its second-gene­ra­ti­on AMD Opte­ron™ X‑Series APU, code­na­med “Ber­lin,” run­ning a Linux envi­ron­ment based on the Fedo­ra Pro­ject. The Fedo­ra Pro­ject is a Red Hat-spon­so­red, com­mu­ni­ty-dri­ven Linux dis­tri­bu­ti­on, pro­vi­ding a fami­li­ar, enter­pri­se class ope­ra­ting envi­ron­ment to deve­lo­pers and IT admi­nis­tra­tors world­wi­de. This is important to com­pa­nies loo­king to tran­si­ti­on to x86 APU ser­vers but who are reluc­tant to intro­du­ce new tools and soft­ware plat­forms to their IT envi­ron­ments. This demons­tra­ti­on also repres­ents a signi­fi­cant step for­ward in expan­ding the foot­print of x86 APU acce­le­ra­ted per­for­mance within the data center.

AMD’s pre­mie­re demons­tra­ti­on of “Ber­lin” will show­ca­se the world’s first Hete­ro­ge­neous Sys­tem Archi­tec­tu­re (HSA) fea­tured ser­ver APU ahead of its offi­ci­al launch later this year. The demons­tra­ti­on fea­tures advance­ments incor­po­ra­ted in “Pro­ject Suma­tra” that enable Java™ appli­ca­ti­ons to take advan­ta­ge of gra­phics pro­ces­sing units (GPUs) within AMD ser­ver APUs. The com­bi­na­ti­on of Linux and Java on AMD APU plat­forms pro­vi­des an ide­al plat­form for ser­ver-based mul­ti­me­dia workloads and gene­ral pur­po­se GPU com­pu­te that will help dri­ve new levels of workload effi­ci­en­cy in the data cen­ter.  AMD also will demons­tra­te soft­ware-based on Open­CL™ and OpenGL on “Ber­lin.”

“As ser­vers adapt to new and evol­ving workloads, it’s cri­ti­cal that the soft­ware eco­sys­tem sup­port the requi­re­ments of the­se new workloads,” said Suresh Gopa­l­a­krish­n­an, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger of the Ser­ver Busi­ness Unit, AMD. “We are actively enga­ged with a broad set of part­ners in the data cen­ter soft­ware com­mu­ni­ty who are brin­ging to mar­ket the soft­ware infra­struc­tu­re to seam­less­ly enable x86 APU based servers.”

AMD is a foun­ding mem­ber of the HSA Foun­da­ti­on, an orga­niza­ti­on dedi­ca­ted to buil­ding robust eco­sys­tems to sup­port APU tech­no­lo­gies. For more infor­ma­ti­on plea­se visit AMD’s booth 621 at the Red Hat Sum­mit today and tomor­row whe­re the HP Moonshot M700 Car­tridge based on the AMD Opte­ron™ X‑Series X2150 APU, the upco­ming second gene­ra­ti­on AMD Opte­ron™ X‑Series “Ber­lin” APU, and the AMD SM15000 ser­vers as well as part­ner tech­no­lo­gies will be on display.

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