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FREMONT, CA, April 21st, 2005 - FREMONT, CA, April 21st, 2005 - In order to address market demands for the next level of system performance, and further extend its commitment to enabling customers to become technology leaders, Tyan is introducing support for ground-breaking dual core technology from AMD (NYSE: AMD) on a full range of new platforms and servers, all of which incorporate industry-leading features and cutting-edge performance. On the 2nd anniversary of the introduction of the AMD Opteron(tm) processor, Tyan's award-winning platforms have evolved to handle the next level of 64-bit processing power and deliver products that customers need to reach their computing goals. New powerhouse products for the server and workstation which are Dual Core Ready include the following: * Thunder K8WE (S2895, 2-way AMD Opteron 200 Series processor workstation board) * Thunder K8SRE (S2891, 2-way AMD Opteron 200 Series processor rackmount server board) * Thunder K8SD Pro (S2882-D, 2-way AMD Opteron 200 Series processor server board) * Thunder K8SR (S2881, 2-way AMD Opteron 200 Series processor rackmount server board) * Thunder K8QSD (S4882-D, 4-way AMD Opteron 800 Series processor server board) * Thunder K8QW (S4881, 8-way AMD Opteron 800 Series processor workstation/server board) * ...and many more to be announced "Today's landmark introduction of the Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor is proof of AMD's commitment to providing customers with industry-leading power previously unavailable to them," said Pat Patla, director, server/workstation business, Microprocessor Business Unit, Computation Products Group, AMD. "With the best performance-per-watt architecture available, an incredibly stable infrastructure, Direct Connect Architecture and the highest performing processors in the market, AMD can deliver compelling computing products available for a full range of IT requirements." "The launch of AMD's dual core technology represents a paradigm shift for speed and power for all computing applications," said Dr. Symon Chang, Tyan's president and CEO. "With AMD's new dual-core technology, the value of Tyan's system and platform products has now been extended to the next milestone of performance: a testament to Tyan's commitment to meeting or exceeding our customers' expectations." For more information and details about Tyan or Tyan products, please visit Tyan's website at http://www.tyan.com

miles Registered User Posts: 111 Joined: 2000-07-07

#35968 Posted on: 04/25/2005 09:56 PM So does this mean that the 8 Thunder K8S Pro's I bought last fall won't support the dual cores? Athlon 64 X2 3800+ on a Tyan Tomcat K8E

opus13 misanthrope. Posts: 1628 Joined: 2002-04-05

#35969 Posted on: 04/25/2005 10:03 PM thats only a list of new products for dual core... not a complete list.

opus13 misanthrope. Posts: 1628 Joined: 2002-04-05

#35970 Posted on: 04/25/2005 10:44 PM heres a page on the k8qw. linkage eight dual core opterons with dual pci-express. hell yes.

dilidolo Registered User Posts: 175 Joined: 2004-01-13

#35971 Posted on: 04/25/2005 10:44 PM Originally posted by miles So does this mean that the 8 Thunder K8S Pro's I bought last fall won't support the dual cores? Just check their bios update page, it should tell you if the new bios supports dual core. My 2881 has a new bios supports dual core so K8S Pro should support it as well.

daniel178 Registered User Posts: 359 Joined: 2001-01-10

#35972 Posted on: 04/26/2005 12:14 AM my question is if the Tiger K8W will support dual core...... :confused:

cmaxb Registered User Posts: 35 Joined: 2005-04-25

#35973 Posted on: 04/26/2005 01:32 AM Originally posted by opus13 heres a page on the k8qw. linkage eight dual core opterons with dual pci-express. hell yes. What OS can you run on that thing?

Sink Registered User Posts: 1197 Joined: 2001-08-20

#35974 Posted on: 04/26/2005 01:43 AM What OS: Windows 2003 DataCenter (not likely). Linux (maybe). Solaris 10 x64 (32bit now 64bit later in June). YES. I like Solaris. Can you tell? I wish I had the cash to buy their stock now. I am also happy I did not have the cash to buy it a few years ago. Ouch! 1. Dell Precision 670|2x2.8GHz|4096MB (quiet). 2. Sun Blade 2000 |2x900MHz UltraSparcIII-cu(64-bit)|4096MB Heat: zinken255

nine Registered User Posts: 1313 Joined: 2004-03-11

#35975 Posted on: 04/26/2005 01:45 AM Originally posted by opus13 heres a page on the k8qw. linkage eight dual core opterons with dual pci-express. hell yes. Good..........................................god. That would help Combustion and Maya a tad. By the time you buy the motherboard, 4 cpus and many, many sticks of ram I bet you could've bought a pretty nice used car though. Haha.

Sink Registered User Posts: 1197 Joined: 2001-08-20

#35976 Posted on: 04/26/2005 01:46 AM Check out the K8QW described as a Workstation/Server MB. I wish I needed a 16 CPU workstation. That would be greate. 1. Dell Precision 670|2x2.8GHz|4096MB (quiet). 2. Sun Blade 2000 |2x900MHz UltraSparcIII-cu(64-bit)|4096MB Heat: zinken255

daniel178 Registered User Posts: 359 Joined: 2001-01-10

#35977 Posted on: 04/26/2005 01:51 AM also: Windows Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition (Enterprise supports up to 8-way SMP, Datacenter supports up to 64-way SMP).

i_wolf labhair dom as gaelige Posts: 2097 Joined: 2002-11-19

#35978 Posted on: 04/26/2005 07:54 AM I'm sure things are fine now, but Tyan is one company I remember thinking I would never again buy any hardware from. A few years back they messed me around with a dodgy Athlon MP mobo. Never again. Terrible customer service. Hypothetically if I ever was to go back and buy a board from them, it would be after you lot had been the test guinea pigs for me and gave me very positive results on these (albeit very sexy sounding) boards! Hung like a donkey. Go like a horse!

rmn oh my, it's huge! Posts: 6013 Joined: 2002-01-26

#35979 Posted on: 04/26/2005 09:05 AM Personally I'm more interested in Iwill's upcoming DK8EW (the "workstation" version of the DK8ES). Hopefully they'll release it when the problems are ironed out, instead of using their clients as (paying) guinea pigs, like some other compaies (cough*tyan*cough). RMN ~~~

tvadakia Registered User Posts: 28 Joined: 2003-11-13

#35980 Posted on: 04/26/2005 04:31 PM It's great news that Microsoft is licensing PER PHYSICAL PROCESSOR. However!, I'm concerned how they're going to handle this. For instance, currently Windows XP Professional can handle up to 2 "processors", Windows 2003 Server - 4, Windows 2003 Enterprise Server 8, etc. etc. As far as I know the 64-bit line of XP and 2003 operating systems mimic this scenario. When dual-core becomes mainstream, WILL Windows XP 64-bit Pro be able to handle TWO multi-core processors? Or 2003 64-bit Enterprise be able to handle 8 multi-core processors? Or is the announced licensing scheme for multi-core not going to be included in Microsoft operating systems until the Longhorn series goes public? Unique.

rmn oh my, it's huge! Posts: 6013 Joined: 2002-01-26

#35981 Posted on: 04/26/2005 08:49 PM XP Home (which doesn't officially support multiple processors) already supports HT. My guess is all products will treat dual-core CPUs the same way they treat HT CPUs. RMN ~~~

opus13 misanthrope. Posts: 1628 Joined: 2002-04-05

#35982 Posted on: 04/27/2005 02:07 AM Originally posted by rmn XP Home (which doesn't officially support multiple processors) already supports HT. My guess is all products will treat dual-core CPUs the same way they treat HT CPUs. RMN ~~~ is oracle/peoplesoft still on the fence about their per-proc/core pricing... or did they finally make up their minds?

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