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AMD Begins Seeding Developers, Enterprises with Opteron Servers 500 Lucky Customers Get First Crack at x86-64 TechnologyAMD's long-awaited, eighth-generation Opteron and Athlon 64 "Hammer" processors are still a few months away from the market, but the chipmaker has announced that a maximum of 500 Opteron-based servers will be available to system builders and end customers for early testing and development of applications on AMD's x86-64 technology. The systems, based on preproduction Opteron CPUs and "Khepri" dual-processor, 1U-chassis motherboard platforms from Newisys, will be available in February from contract manufacturer Sanmina-SCI. Newisys says its system management technology will help customers port and test code for both 32- and 64-bit environments. Meanwhile, another piece of AMD's 64-bit puzzle has fallen into place with beta availability of the 64-bit version of IBM's DB2 Universal Database server, the first database software to support the Opteron processor platform. The Linux-based server software, available to AMD-managed partners, is designed to give enterprise customers native access to a 64-bit database environment while optimizing the performance of existing 32-bit applications.
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