May 5, 2008
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Today, American Micro Devices (AMD) announces that its Operating System Research Center has largely
expanded its focus to now include code optimization and tuning advancements for Sun Microsystems’ OpenSolaris
Operating System.
AMD's new initiative will also include Sun's X-VM Virtualization family of products.
This further extends AMD’s commitment to work together with technology software partners to ensure
that their operating system and virtualization software are fully optimized in better leveraging AMD's
processor-based features.
By significantly increasing R&D on the OpenSolaris OS, AMD expects to help drive increased Solaris OS
performance for business customers as well as feature enhancements on AMD Opteron™ processor-based systems.
Earl Stahl, v.p. of Software Development at AMD says “Sun and AMD share a good history of technology collaboration on various projects. This next step at the
OSRC represents an even deeper commitment on the part of both companies to ensure that our respective
technologies work in concert to deliver customers the highest performance possible on our systems.”
“We know that Solaris is a key enterprise-class operating system for mission critical applications while the
xVM family of products addresses desktop and server virtualization for the enterprise and data center with
high availability, scalability, performance and management. AMD is a strong supporter of open source and will
be a contributing member of the OpenSolaris community,” added Stahl.
Jim McHugh, v.p. of Solaris Marketing at Sun said "an important factor in the success of the new OpenSolaris OS release and xVM will be their ability to
run and perform exceptionally well on any system. Sun and AMD are committed to further optimizing these products
for AMD Operton processor-based systems."
"American Micro Devices has long been a leader in CPU innovation and we're excited to take this next step in
better aligning our technologies and ultimately meeting specific customer needs," added McHugh.
Additionally, AMD is a trusted member, supporter and contributor to the Java development community through
its relationship with Sun Microsystems and its participation in the Open-JDK project. At Sun’s annual JavaOne
Conference, AMD will host a General Session on focusing on the key role that the microprocessor plays in the
proliferation of Java and its impact on the rise of always-on, Web-based connectivity.
The annual JavaOne Conference will take place May 6 through 9 in San Francisco.
The readily-available Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor is uniquely engineered to work with the full library
of Sun software, including OpenSolaris, Sun Studio compilers and tools, xVM and Java technology.
SunFire systems are powered by AMD Opteron processors and have achieved numerous world-record benchmarks in
conjunction with the Solaris operating system and these technologies together deliver a good combination for
enterprise, workstation and HPC environments.
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