Newisys, a Server and Storage company with expertise in glue-chips for Opterons, based in Austin, Texas, was co-founded by Claymon A Cipione (who was later AMD CIO from 2005-2008) and Phil Hester (who later was AMD's CTO from 2005 till 2008) in 2000, and was acquired in 2004 by manufacturer Sanmina-SCI.
AMD engineering teams were internally tasked with building server reference designs to support Opteron server processor evaluation by customers.
It included 62,976 processor cores (provided by 15,744 Opteron quad-core processors in 3,936 quad-socket Sun Blade server nodes) running the CentOS Linux distribution, and originally had peak performance of 504 TFlops, 123 TB memory and 1.73 PB of storage.
The company's visual effects division, Troublemaker Digital, is also located at the site, and uses six-core AMD Opteron processors and FirePro graphics accelerators on many of its productions.
AMD Opteron processor, the Opteron compiler supports multi-core parallelism
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Kealia designed Magnum, a high capacity InfiniBand switch; Galaxy, a range of blade servers based on AMD's Opteron microprocessor; and Thumper, an enterprise grade network attached storage system.
Socket G34, a CPU socket designed by AMD to support AMD's multi-chip module Opteron 6000-series server processors
:At Interop New York, Netlist demonstrated 100 virtual machines on a HP DL385 G7 dual socket server with AMD's Opteron 8-core CPUs and 24 memory slots using HyperCloud memory.
The Cray XT system utilizes over 45,000 of the latest quad-core Opteron processors from AMD and features 362 terabytes of memory and a 10-petabyte file system.