Press Release: AMD's Multiprocessor
Platform Certified for the Covalent Enterprise Ready Server and the Zeus Web
Server
Posted By
Kathy Smith
Date: January 31, 2002
Linux industry's two largest vendors of enterprise-class Web server products have certified and now support platforms based on AMD Athlon(tm) MP processors.
LINUXWORLD, NY-JANUARY 31, 2002-AMD
today announced that AMD's multiprocessing architecture, featuring the AMD
Athlon(tm) MP processor, is now certified by Web server manufacturers Covalent
Technologies and Zeus Technology. The certification of Enterprise Ready Server
and Zeus Web Server will help assure enterprise customers that they can rely
upon AMD multiprocessor-based platforms when serving mission critical Web pages.
Covalent is the developer of Enterprise Ready Server, the first comprehensive
enterprise solution for the Apache Web server. Zeus Technology, developer of
Zeus Web Server, has been designing and deploying infrastructure solutions since
1995.
"We have run our Enterprise Ready Server on an AMD Athlon MP processor-based
system and report superior performance," said Mark Douglas, senior vice
president of Engineering at Covalent Technologies. "Exceptional performance of
our Apache-based Web server solutions is very important and working closely with
AMD helps to ensure this."
"AMD Athlon MP processor-based platforms provide an opportunity to deploy the
Zeus Web Server to the broader enterprise while maintaining exceptional
performance," said John Paterson, CEO of Zeus Technology. "We will continue to
strengthen our relationship to support AMD's next generation products."
"Support from the Linux community and our partners is critical to the success of
our multiprocessor technology, and it is clearly evident from the level of
commitment we have received from Covalent and Zeus Technology," said Richard
Heye, vice president of Platform Engineering and Infrastructure for AMD's
Computation Products Group. "We will continue to work with leading software
vendors in their efforts to certify applications such as Web server software for
AMD's multiprocessing platform."
About the AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor
The AMD Athlon MP processor is a seventh-generation
x86 processor designed for high-performance multiprocessing servers and
workstations.
A key advantage of AMD's multiprocessing platform is Smart MP technology, which
greatly enhances overall platform performance by increasing data movement
between the two CPUs, chipset and memory system. Smart MP technology features
dual point-to-point, high-speed 266MHz system buses with Error Correcting Code (ECC)
support designed to provide up to 2.1GB per second per CPU of bus bandwidth in a
dual-processor system. Smart MP technology also has an optimized Modified Owner
Exclusive Shared Invalid (MOESI) cache coherency protocol that manages data and
memory traffic in a multiprocessing environment.
The AMD Athlon MP processor features the patented QuantiSpeed(tm) architecture,
which includes a high performance full-speed cache with hardware data pre-fetch,
a fully pipelined superscalar floating point engine, and an exclusive L2
Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB). The processor also incorporates 3DNow!*
Professional technology, which has 51 new instructions that extend AMD's 3DNow!
technology, enabling smoother, richer and more lifelike images, more precise
digital audio and an enriched Internet experience.
The AMD Athlon MP processor is compatible with AMD's stable Socket A
infrastructure, and supports DDR memory technology.
About AMD
AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for
the personal and networked computer and communications markets with
manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a
Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, flash
memory devices, and support circuitry for communications and networking
applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had
revenues of $3.9 billion in 2001. (NYSE: AMD).
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PR Contact
Sean Cleveland
AMD Public Relations
(408) 749-5980
sean.cleveland@amd.com
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