AMD Announces Continued Software Support for AMD Opteron Processor-Based Systems.Business Editors SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2003 AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Software partners using AMD Developer Center can easily optimize software for AMD64 platform AMD (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AMD) today announced AMD64 software support from Axceleon, PDF Solutions PDF Solutions (NASDAQ: PDFS) is a developer for process-design integration technologies for integrated circuits (ICs). They have especially specialized in deep sub-micrometre designs. , Stata Corporation and Streamline Computing, providing customers even more 64-bit options for simulation, statistical analysis and cluster computing Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications is a journal for parallel processing, distributed computing systems, and computer communication networks. software. "Enterprise applications for clusters, security and statistical analysis are all bandwidth-constrained in a 32-bit environment and will enjoy the freedom and expansion of AMD Opteron(TM) processor-based systems," said Marty Seyer, vice president and general manager of AMD's Microprocessor Business Unit. "Software developers continue to use the AMD Developer Center to discover the simplified migration path offered by the AMD64 platform, allowing customers to migrate applications as quickly or gradually as needed as needed prn. See prn order. to the power of 64-bit computing." "Axceleon's EnFuzion distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. management software provides a cost-effective, time-efficient way of automating computationally intensive calculations such as electric network analysis, financial modeling, video production, and bioinformatics," said Rok Sosic, chief technology officer of Axceleon, Inc. "We quickly completed the AMD64 validation through the Developer Center, so our software can now take advantage of the power and performance of AMD Opteron processor-based systems." "As the industry moves toward 90nm, performing timely yield analysis on large chip designs is difficult to achieve using 32-bit machines," said Roland Ruehl, vice president of Software Engineering at PDF Solutions Inc. "By working with the AMD Developer Center, PDF Solutions was able to complete an initial port of our Yield Ramp Simulator (YRS(TM)) to the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is a Linux distribution supplied by Novell, targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, but can be installed on Desktop computers for testing as well. New versions are released at an interval of 18-24 months. OS in less than a week. Now, by using AMD64-based parallel compute racks, our customers can perform yield predictions and root cause analysis with turn-around-times that were previously impossible." "As our customers are exploring the AMD Opteron processor's capabilities, it is becoming increasingly important that our statistical analysis software is AMD64-compatible, said Alan Riley, vice president of software development, Stata Corporation. "Our compute-intensive Stata 8 software requires 64-bit addressing for more than 4GB of RAM, so this was a logical choice for us and the AMD Developer Center made it easy." "Our parallel debugger software is designed to maximize the capabilities of cluster and grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal for commercial, research and academic organizations," said Dr David Lecomber, director of software, Streamline Computing. "Our UK-based developers remotely accessed the latest hardware and software tools to successfully optimize our software for the AMD64 platform. Our customers can now get the most from this new world of simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing." About AMD Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a global supplier of integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, Flash memory devices, and silicon-based solutions for communications and networking applications. AMD on the Web For more AMD news and product information, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/index.html. 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