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In Pictures: AMD Consolidates From 18 Datacenters To Just Two

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May 8, 2014 11:00:02 PM

Tom's Hardware recently visited AMD's new datacenter in Suwanee, Georgia, where the company is working to consolidate IT resources. Already, the project is saving millions and allowing AMD to operate more efficiently. Follow us as we tour the facility.

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May 9, 2014 2:04:04 AM

Interesting article. I've never heard of an Opteron 6389, though. :) 
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May 9, 2014 3:17:27 AM

Oh man what I would give to just walk around in there, just to see that cable management as well hrrrnnnffff *nerdgasm*
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May 9, 2014 4:02:55 AM

picture 6 is awesome!
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May 9, 2014 5:52:26 AM

If it is so modern, why are they still running Vista on their monitoring workstations?
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May 9, 2014 7:31:54 AM

Just waiting for an Nvidia fan-boi to jump on the 'green is good' comment....

BTW, I'm not a fan-boi either way, just saying..
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May 9, 2014 9:45:32 AM

I'm a bit surprised about the location they chose; In Sweden I think it was Google that placed a data centers faar up north to tap into the 'clean' electricity from water power, but also benefit from to cooler climate for cooling but then also be able to sell the surplus heat to warm houses.
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May 9, 2014 11:35:52 AM

Is that Windows XP on the first picture?
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May 9, 2014 11:41:57 AM

Great steps forward for AMD. Sure, I use nVidia for graphics cards (I need them for CUDA rendering), but somebody has to compete with Intel!

They should give everybody in town free hot water that was heated by AMD processors. Sounds like it would be tasty! (After you made it cold, of course!)
I'm excited that AMD is keeping a datacenter in the USA!

(By the way, eriko, green is an AMD color, too!)
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May 9, 2014 2:45:00 PM

LOL at the tape backup
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May 9, 2014 3:24:44 PM

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If it is so modern, why are they still running Vista on their monitoring workstations?

Obviously the monitoring is a web-based UI. So... why spend the money to upgrade workstations that run a web-based application?

I'd be willing to bet the workstations they actually use for design are some sort of Unix-based operating system running high-end EDA software like Mentor Graphics. That said, maybe AMD uses a custom in-house EDA software solution, so I could be wrong.

Also, holy tape batman.
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May 9, 2014 3:29:32 PM

Fix the comments section for Best Graphics Cards for the Money already, it's getting to be ridiculous. Do you not want people to come to this site??
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May 9, 2014 4:27:35 PM

In picture 4 and 6, look at all those Antec 300's. Such a great computer case.
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May 9, 2014 8:28:36 PM

Great article :)  A very nice read.
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May 9, 2014 8:43:51 PM

on first picture, i noticed in lower left computer,
is that a windows xp screen saver?


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May 9, 2014 11:00:38 PM

That's cool.
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May 9, 2014 11:59:28 PM

I have to wonder if they take as much power as a House Hold Clothes Dryer, which takes 240 volts to some times 480 Volts, which I think is the same for these servers if they take 1.8 MW, that is tons of Juice, and about Servers that cost 1 Million Dollars.
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May 10, 2014 12:08:46 AM

And the irony that if they wanted even better power consumption figures they'd have Xeons.
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May 10, 2014 7:44:02 AM

I am a hard core AMD user and have been ever since AMD K6 but until they get off their butts and produce serious energy efficient processors to complete with Intel's they are in a losing battle. They make great processors and best bang for the buck but long term TOC is higher in terms of energy cost. The data center consolidation will save money now but as time goes on they will lose money in energy usage.
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May 10, 2014 9:05:38 AM

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I am a hard core AMD user and have been ever since AMD K6 but until they get off their butts and produce serious energy efficient processors to complete with Intel's they are in a losing battle. They make great processors and best bang for the buck but long term TOC is higher in terms of energy cost. The data center consolidation will save money now but as time goes on they will lose money in energy usage.


i dont think so, FM2+ and AM1 CPUs are doing wonders in power usage.
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May 10, 2014 12:36:46 PM

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on first picture, i noticed in lower left computer,
is that a windows xp screen saver?




"An Emphasis On Staying Modern" Well, they better get to work!
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May 10, 2014 7:28:41 PM

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I am a hard core AMD user and have been ever since AMD K6 but until they get off their butts and produce serious energy efficient processors to complete with Intel's they are in a losing battle. They make great processors and best bang for the buck but long term TOC is higher in terms of energy cost. The data center consolidation will save money now but as time goes on they will lose money in energy usage.


i dont think so, FM2+ and AM1 CPUs are doing wonders in power usage.

Sure, they are getting better... but on high end server parts they are often 1.5-2x the wattage of similarly performant Xeons. They could cut their power bill in half again just by switching to the competition's parts... pluss less cooling requirement which means a much simpler system. Don't get me wrong, I love AMD, and have bought AMD and Intel parts over the years, but there is a reason why AMD can only compete in the low cost entry market, and it is because Intel simply makes better/faster/cooler parts on the high end where operating costs dwarf installation costs.

Still very impressive though. If nothing else they will save a pretty penny by removing all of the infrastructure costs. But I am a bit surprised that they would not have 3-4 locations simply for redundancy's sake. 99.982 is still 94 minutes of down time a year. Certainly better than my computer at home... but then again my computer is not doing anything as important as these systems. At least with the old system they had more options in the event of a failure.
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May 10, 2014 8:38:40 PM

trying to improve the efficiency of a datacenter in 2014 using Opterons is like prodicing ethanol from corn to reduce CO2 emissions.
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May 10, 2014 10:27:14 PM

Supporting a direct competitor to save a bit of electricity seems pretty stupid. Hence why AMD uses AMD parts
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May 11, 2014 5:15:48 AM

It's windows 7. You can tell by looking at the minimize, resize, and close buttons on the top right hand corner of the program. Windows Vista buttons are much larger than 7's. These ones are small, so, it's 7.
The gadgets on both 7 and Vista are similar as well.
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May 12, 2014 2:46:20 PM

Google: "Ohh look! It is like a data center.... only, smaller. How cute."
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June 3, 2014 5:36:34 PM

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I am a hard core AMD user and have been ever since AMD K6 but until they get off their butts and produce serious energy efficient processors to complete with Intel's they are in a losing battle. They make great processors and best bang for the buck but long term TOC is higher in terms of energy cost. The data center consolidation will save money now but as time goes on they will lose money in energy usage.


i dont think so, FM2+ and AM1 CPUs are doing wonders in power usage.


Well my motherboard is an FM2, and it has functions on my Bios that makes the system use less power by adding a few settings, now this is a smart way of going since trying to save money on power is not easy, I mean heck my system at least has provided 2 low Power Bills in terms of usage, besides the reason also to this is not just the CPU and Motherboard(Motherboard is the ASUS F2A55-M), but Solid State Drives are a big key to the Power Saving issue too,

The Brand of SSDs I have are both SanDisk(Extreme 120GB & Ultra Plus 128 GB), which have had Power Benchmarks at a real good level in lower Power Consumption, which in turn uses less power to put data on an SSD, and in some Cases Prevent Fatal Power Failures on the SSDs which other Brands still have problems with, because I have the power go out on me at least twice, both Drives are running normally still since then,

And the benefit of this power saving is it also makes my computer System, Very Stable at that and it also makes my system produce less heat too which on those Summer Days, a Computer can be brutally hit by high temps, and so I figure that is why I decided to get my system and made it as a Custom Built system I built myself.
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