AMD selects HP blade servers

MUMBAI

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

AMD has purchased several HP BladeSystem c-Class server blades powered by AMD
Opteron processors to support the development of its chip designs, according to
a statement from HP.

AMD's silicon design team will use the new systems for electronic design
automation applications.

“HP's Linux-based BladeSystem solution's integrated consoles and power control
help us to manage more servers without increasing our staff,” said Mike Lowe,
Director, Chipset Engineering, AMD.

“These new systems help AMD take advantage of the latest HP and AMD
high-performance and power-saving technologies and dramatically increase the
density of our world-class engineering design compute cluster to enable us to
bring new generations of chip designs to market efficiently and
cost-effectively,” he added.

AMD's engineering design environment is based on an open-architecture run and
managed with Linux and open source tools. The HP BladeSystem solution running
Red Hat Enterprise Linux was implemented at AMD's Sunnyvale, Calif., and
Boxborough, Mass., design centers by HP Platinum and Linux Elite partner, Dasher
Technologies.

“HP BladeSystem c-Class is helping customers move toward an automated, 'lights
out' computing environment while reducing the costs and obstacles of a racked,
stacked and wired environment,” said Winston Prather, vice president and general
manager, High Performance Computing Division, HP.

The servers located at Sunnyvale and Boxborough will also provide computing
power to engineering teams in Texas, Colorado and India, the statement added.