AMD Opteron to Receive Wide Industry Adoption by Software Vendors.

by Anton Shilov
04/07/2003 | 07:35 PM

AMD Opteron processor will receive a really wide industry adoption from the very beginning, as the documents we have seen today reveal.

Here is the list of operating systems to support x86-64 platform:

• All 32-bit systems
• UnitedLinux Version 1, 32-bit/64-bit, available now;
• Mandrake Linux Corporate Server 2.1, 32-bit/64- bit, available on April 22, 2003;
• SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8, 32-bit/64-bit, available on April 22 2003;
• NetBSD 64-bit, available on April 22, 2003;
• Beowulf Sycld Operating System, 64-bit, available on April 22, 2003;
• Turbolinux, 64-bit, available on April 22, 2003;
• Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0, 64-bit, date to be announced;
• Windows for AMD64, 64-bit, date to be announced;
• FreeBSD, OPENBSD, 64-bit, date to be announced.

Open Source development tools for AMD 64-bit platform, all available now:

• ATLAS 3.5.0 Developer Release Library;
• Blackdown Java Platform 2 Version 1.4.2;
• GNU binutils, set of utilities;
• GNU C++ (g++) 3.2, GNU C (gcc) 3.2, GNU C (gcc) 3.3 (optimized) compilers;
• GNU Debugger (GDB) debugger;
• GNU glibc 2.2.5, GNU glibc 2.3.2 (optimized) C libraries;
• MPICH library;
• PERL, Python, Ruby, Tcl/Tk languages.

ISV Development Tools:

• 64Express code migratory, available now;
• RSA library, available now;
• SoftICE beta 1 debugger, available now;
• PGI Workstation 5.0 beta optimized compilers, available now;
• PGI Workstation 5.0 beta optimized compilers for Linux, available on April 14, 2003;
• AMD Core Math Libraries (ACML) optimized libraries, available on April 22, 2003;
• PGI Workstation 5.0 Toolkit Production Release, available in June 2003;
• PGI Cluster Development Kit  (CDK) 5.0, available in July 2003;
• TotalView Debugger, date to be announced;
• Vampir/Vampirtrace Analysis, date to be announced;
• Visual C, C++ compiler, date to be announced;
• Distributed Debugging Tool debugger, date to be announced;
• Vega Prime 3D Applications Development, date to be announced;
• Absoft compilers, date to be announced.

Server applications for AMD 64-bit platform:

• Apache HTTP Server, available now;
• Mental Ray rendering engine, available now;
• Zeus by Zeus web server, available now;
• Cluster Strike Server by Valve, gaming server, available now;
• SENDMail, email server, available on April 22, 2003;
• MySQL database engine, available on April 22, 2003;
• DB2 by IBM, available in the third quarter 2003;
• Apache Server by Covalent, date to be announced;
• Stronghold web server by Red Hat, date to be announced;
• Ingres by CA database server, date to be announced;
• Unicenter by CA, date to be announced;
• Oracle database engine, date to be announced;
• MS IIS web server by Microsoft, date to be announced;
• Terminal Server by Microsoft, date to be announced;
• MS SQL database derver, date to be announced.

Also numerous additional target applications are expected to come from numerous vendors:

• Application Servers by BEA, IBM;
• Business Processing Applications byJD Edwards, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel;
• Java Engines (JVMs) by BEA, IBM, SUN;
• HPC Applications by Abaqus, Ansys, Fluent, LS-DYNA, Landmark, NASTRAN;
• Messaging/Collaborative Engines by Lotus Domino, MS Exchange;
• Streaming Media Engines by Microsoft, Real Networks;
• Statistical Engines by SAS;
• Transaction Engines by Citrix;
• Workstation Software  by Adobe, Alias/Wavefront, Autodesk, Avid, Discreet, Softimage, Solid Works.

Infrastructure Target Applications:

• BIOS by Phoenix, AMI;
• Diagnostics by AMI, UltrX, Eurosoft, PC-Doctor;
• Management by Altiris, BMC, CA, HP, Tivoli, NetIQ, Novell ZenWorks, OSA;
• Security/Antivirus by CA eTrust, Symantec;
• Storage Management by Legato, PowerQuest, Veritas;
• Utilities by Symantec Norton Utilities;
• Virtualization by Connectix, VMWare GSX.

The ecosystem for AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 processor looks quite nice, isn’t it?