Chipping off the Façade of Virtualization Performance Façade - a false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect (Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary) The concept of a “façade” has taken on a new meaning for me due to a Christmas Eve... 
Neil Kelly – A Virtualization Champion As many of you know, on Dec 18th the AMD family lost Neil Kelly, Director for Virtualization Alliances. It takes a lot of vision to move an emerging technology like virtualization into the mainstream. Virtualization C... It’s All About the Cores As we embark on an interesting 2010 and even more interesting 2011, it is clear that the age of clock speed is behind us; it’s all about cores for the next few years until “Fusion-based” computing hi... Chipping Away the Façade on Compilers and Benchmarks for AMD Processors If you follow my Virtualization Blog you know about my efforts to chip away facades – false, superficial or artificial appearances – around processor performance. The first week of this new dec... Embedded Graphics and Industry Standards While a good number of my AMD colleagues spent at least some of last week looking over the media coverage and assessing the success of CES, the embedded team was gearing up for the annual Taiwan Embedded Forum. ... 2010 Forecast – Partly Cloudy with an Innovative Shower of AMD Opteron™ Processor Technology I often talk in my blog about the blurry line between hype and reality. Over the years we’ve seen lots of technologies that received plenty of hype, but how many can you say were truly disruptive? In my opinion,... Certification - The Road to Graphic Design Success! http://blogs.amd.com/work/files/2010/02/ATI_FirePro_V8750_product-shot_Angled_Web.jpgHave you ever been in a situation where you walked in to a store to buy something, and came back home only to find that it didn̵... “iPads” for Business? I’m sure that got your attention. Everything Apple does grabs attention and for good reason. Their products are keenly attuned, most of the time, to what a strong segment of their target market is af... Processor + Cloud Computing: A Layman’s Guide Multi-core Processing for Dummies, Virtualization for Dummies… these are just a few of the book titles AMD has released in the past few years. Apparently this wasn’t a novel idea; someone had already beat... Putting Performance into Perspective – Benchmark Selector Tool for AMD Opteron™ Processor-based Servers Over the weekend, as I watched my wife’s beloved New Orleans Saints win their first Super Bowl, I reflected back on the decision that the Saints made to hire Sean Payton, Drew Brees, and Reggie Bush in 2006. It ... Red Storm Supercomputer Running AMD Opteron™ Processors Gives Virtualization a Whirl What a way to kick off the new decade. The world of supercomputing is starting to converge with the world of virtualization. Many of the folks who are building some of the fastest and largest computers in the world ar... Building a Power Efficient HPC System When you think of HPC clusters, do you think of power efficiency? Most people don’t, but there is a strong case to be made for power efficiency in the HPC world. One of the biggest challenges that hi... I Never Bought a Nanometer And neither have you. Seriously. I bought my first processor in a PC back in 1987. 12MHz. Yes, and that was considered “fast.” Back then, I worried about 2 things: performance... "Magny-Cours" is Right on Schedule, and Shipping to Customers That distant hum that you hear is the sound of the factory churning out AMD's most advanced x86 processor ever. Yes, production of the new 8- and 12-core AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processors (codenamed "Magny-Cou... Analyze This Last week we hosted a server industry analyst event at the AMD campus in Austin. The industry analysts are those sharp people that follow the server market’s every move and consult with many of the largest... What Would You Do With 48 Cores? *** THIS CONTEST HAS ENDED *** Well, you might get your chance to show us. The AMD Server team is kicking March off with a new contest. We are seeking your best essays, videos, or blog posts documenting ho... Awards Season When it comes to the Oscars, I tend to find the fashion to be most interesting, along with the music, costume and set design awards. I love movies, but my taste is all over the map and I don’t think I̵... ATI Eyefinity Technology Gets Social at Work Today is an outstanding day! Why is my day so awesome, amazing and glorious you ask? Well today is the day I got to start up my very own setup at work which supports ATI Eyefinity technology. I’ll tell you more ... Parallel’s Summit 2010: Cloud Computing & the SMB Opportunity I love to be on the water, ocean or lake. It doesn’t matter to me. More to the point, I love to sail. To me, there is nothing more peaceful than listening to the sound of the water rushing past the h... Where in the Web Hosting/Cloud Computing World is the AMD Opteron Processor? Everywhere! I recently led an industry discussion on the target software solutions for our upcoming AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series and 4000 Series platforms. One of the fun facts I presented during my session – nearly...