As most of you all know, iMountain.com mostly utilizes Opteron processors for their energy efficiency and high performance.
Well we’re psyched up for AMD’s newest offering of 6 core processors code-named “Istanbul”. Based on their latest 45 nanometer design, these processors promise to be fast and most importantly, energy-efficient. These new 6 core chips promise to increase performance by 35% per watt consumption compared to previous generation chips.
Another performance enhancing feature will be “HT Assist” which sort of indexes the contents of the various CPU’s so that data can be interchanged quickly and efficiently.
Cray, famous for its supercomputers, has also announced that the Cray XT5m will be using these new Opteron 6 Core chips at the core of its supercomputing platform.
Although we won’t be using any Cray Supercomputers, we can’t wait to get our hands on some of these 6-cores to build a 48 Core server.
We’ve been buying the Opteron Quad Core Barcelona 8350′s for quite some time now…they are the foundation for our 32 CPU Core Servers. These are the AMD 2nd Generation Opteron chips and are based on Socket F (aka Socket 1207). We recently got in a bunch of Opteron 8350′s in an OEM bulk package without Heatsinks and fans.
