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.
