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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: StockMan who wrote (30571)	3/31/1998 9:42:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572159

Stockman: <<They still haven't shipped more per Q of K6's than they did with K5.>> Do you know how many K5 shipped per quarter a few years back? By the way, I think you should cover your shorts. I told you a few days ago but not sure whether you took my advice. Maxwell

To: StockMan who wrote (30571)	3/31/1998 5:41:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572159

AMD Harnesses the Power of More than 1,000 Computers To Shorten the Design Cycle of its New Microprocessor TORONTO, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is using the world's largest workload cluster, enabled by Platform Computing's LSF Suite, to accelerate the time to market of its future processor generations by harnessing the processing power of more than 1,000 computers." LSF has permeated every aspect of the design and product development cycle of our new processor," said Steve Baugh, Systems Administrator at AMD's Texas Microprocessor Division. "LSF enables us to fully utilize all our hardware resources and optimally use our application software licenses, giving us an amazing return on our IT investments. The ability to focus all resources on business and operational problems is invaluable." "I remember when the computers would sit idle all night, and we faced the problem of having no bandwidth during the daytime," said Baugh. "Now, with LSF we run 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 100 percent capacity. We are exceeding 100 million compute seconds in a day. Last month, we hit 1.7 billion compute seconds consumed." AMD has combined the power of three computing clusters with Platform's LSF Suite. The largest cluster is located in Austin, Texas and has nearly 1,200 processors in over 1,000 machines. This cluster is a mix of Sun and Hewlett- Packard workstations, and PCs running Solaris x86. The second cluster, also based in Austin, is composed of 100 PCs running Redhat Linux. The third cluster is located in Milpitas, California, comprising 800 processors, including workstations from Sun and Hewlett-Packard. Even though the clusters are separated by thousands of miles, AMD is able to use LSF to easily coordinate and conduct the millions of regression tests needed for the development of the new processor. All of AMD's regression and simulation testing applications receive a performance boost running under LSF. "Our software enables aggressively competitive companies like AMD to achieve breakthrough results," said Dave Black, CEO and President of Platform Computing. "By aligning these vast distributed computing resources behind their most vital people and tasks, AMD has achieved a clear time-to-market advantage." LSF ensures that no idle time on any CPU goes unused. If a user leaves a workstation for more than 15 minutes, a batch job will be sent there. When the user returns and starts typing, LSF immediately stops batch processing on that system and resumes the batch job elsewhere on the cluster. Users aren't even aware that simulations are running on their machines.