In Pictures: AMD Consolidates From 18 Datacenters To Just Two
In Pictures: AMD Consolidates From 18 Datacenters To Just TwoBack in March, AMD invited Tom's Hardware to visit its new datacenter in Suwanee, Georgia. We were accompanied by Corporate Vice President and CIO Jake Dominguez, Corporate Vice President of Global Infrastructures & Operations Andy Bynum, and Director of Server Software Planning Margaret Lewis. I published my experience at the datacenter in early April. However, I came away with so many other interesting photos to share. Follow along as we tour AMD's new facility, designed to cut costs and improve the company's efficiency.
In this shot, we're in the main office, which provides a building management system for monitoring HVAC capacity, available wattage, and so on. There's also software in place for viewing the status of the generators and switchgears.Â
BTW, I'm not a fan-boi either way, just saying..
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!)
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.
is that a windows xp screen saver?
i dont think so, FM2+ and AM1 CPUs are doing wonders in power usage.
is that a windows xp screen saver?
"An Emphasis On Staying Modern" Well, they better get to work!