AMD Opteron Server – Part 1 (Hardware)

On April 22, 2003 AMD introduced their first 64-bit processor, Opteron (previously called Hammer or SledgeHammer). Nearly one year after we decided to meet with this technology. While AMD's focus of the AMD64 platform also involves desktop solutions, our aim was to build a high-performance Linux server.

AMD Opteron Server – Part 2 (Favour of 64 bits)

In the first part of this series we discussed hardware of AMD64 server. In this article we will describe some features of AMD64 platform and the Opteron processor and do a brief review of Linux support.

Experience from installation Mandrake 10.0 Official on AMD Opteron

We have decided to test several available distributions on our dual-opteron server (details e.g. here. One of the distributions we have chosen to test was Mandrake 10.0 Official pro AMD64.