AMD announced Monday it took the No. 1 spot on the VMware VMmark virtualization benchmark for x86 servers with its quad-core Opteron processor running HP ProLiant DL585 G5 servers. The hardware maker’s 16-core chips now own the top three rankings for the VMmark benchmark, said AMD. The DL785, with 8 sockets and a total of 32 cores and 32 total threads running VMware ESX v3.5.0 Update, earned a score of 21.88 @16 tiles. VMware’s Rapid Virtualization Indexing technology facilitates fast switching between virtual machines, according to AMD.
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AMD Claims Gold in VMware's Virtualization Performance Event
Posted by: Walaika Haskins August 25, 2008 03:20 PMAMD announced Monday it took the No. 1 spot on the VMware VMmark virtualization benchmark for x86 servers with its quad-core Opteron processor running HP ProLiant DL585 G5 servers. The hardware maker’s 16-core chips now own the top three rankings for the VMmark benchmark, said AMD. The DL785, with 8 sockets and a total of 32 cores and 32 total threads running VMware ESX v3.5.0 Update, earned a score of 21.88 @16 tiles. VMware’s Rapid Virtualization Indexing technology facilitates fast switching between virtual machines, according to AMD.