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    AMD Brings Open-Source Virtualization to Opteron

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    Jeff Burt
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    February 15, 2005
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      BOSTON—Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is partnering with XenSource Inc. to bring an open-source virtualization option to its 64-bit Opteron processors.

      AMD will port the Xen virtualization package to Opteron later in the first half of the year, company officials announced Tuesday at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo here.

      “Virtualization is more and more a key attribute that data centers are looking for,” said Ben Williams, vice president of AMDs commercial server and workstation group in the companys Microprocessor Business Unit.

      XenSources Xen hypervisor enables users to run multiple operating systems on a single machine, keeping the various virtual environments isolated from each other.

      The partnership with XenSource is the latest step AMD is making in the area of virtualization, Williams said.

      The company already is working with VMware Inc. to increase virtualization in its Opteron platform, and the next generation of AMD64 chips—code-named Pacifica—will offer additional support at the processor level for virtual environments, as will upcoming enhancements in AMDs single- and dual-core chips, he said.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifVMware “aces” virtual desktops with its ACE software. Click here to read eWEEK Labs review.

      AMD, of Sunnyvale, Calif., is planning to roll out dual-core Opterons—which will have two processing cores on a single die—midyear. AMD has been shipping samples of the dual-core chips to OEMs since last month. At the show, Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Cray Inc. each demonstrated systems running dual-core Opterons.

      Also at the show, AMD announced new Opteron processors—models 152, 252 and 852—with faster HyperTransport speed up to 1GHz for better communication between processors.

      HP, of Palo Alto, Calif., this week rolled out three new servers—including two blade systems—and a workstation based on the new Opteron processors.

      In addition, Sun an-nounced it is outfitting its Sun Fire V20z and V40z and Java Workstation W2100z with the new chips.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest news, views and analysis on servers, switches and networking protocols for the enterprise and small businesses.

      Jeff Burt
      Jeffrey Burt has been with eWEEK since 2000, covering an array of areas that includes servers, networking, PCs, processors, converged infrastructure, unified communications and the Internet of things.

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