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AMD Validates iMB™ for Opteron™ 6200 Series Platform

By Paul Washkewicz, Vice President of Marketing, Computing and Storage at Inphi on 01-30-2012 at 8:01 AM

We continue to see and increased demand for memory-management solutions and have worked closely with major OEMs to increase memory capacity, performance and speed. Today, we announced that LRDIMMs enabled by Inphi’s iMB™, have been fully validated and supported on the  new AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series processors, formerly code-named "Interlagos."  The validation provides memory vendors and systems designers the assurance that they can populate AMD Opteron 6200 Series-based systems with up to 768GB of cost-effective memory for today’s demanding enterprise and cloud-based applications in 2P servers. Check out the full press release.  

In addition, AMD’s John Fruehe commented on the news in his blog post. John states “Load Reduced DIMMs help bring new levels of memory scalability to AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors with their support for huge memory footprints. By adding a buffer, LRDIMMs can multiply ranks, allowing for greater capacity of memory to be installed on a server.”

John continues with “our AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors supported up to 256GB of memory per socket, but with the new LRDIMMs, the capacity on the new AMD Opteron 6200 Series reaches an astounding 384GB per socket, giving a two socket server the ability to reach up to 768GB of total addressable system memory.”

With the availability of platforms supporting LRDIMMs, the next step is bench marking applications with this additional memory capacity.  Inphi and others are doing just this so look for these results of these benchmarks in an upcoming blog.

We are excited about the news and support and will continue our momentum with LRDIMM technology.

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