AMD Showcases Server Innovation and Industry First With a Demo of Its Next-Gen x86 APU Running Fedora Linux
April 16 2014 - 8:00AM
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AMD Showcases Server Innovation and Industry First With a Demo of
Its Next-Gen x86 APU Running Fedora Linux
Open Standards-Based AMD Opteron Processor Ecosystem Development
Enables a Seamless Experience From x86 CPUs to x86 APUs
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 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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Contact: Kristen Lisa AMD Public Relations (512) 602-6020
kristen.lisa@amd.com
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