AMD says that it chose the HP ProLiant BL465c servers over competitive offerings for their performance, power and cooling efficiencies and system management capabilities.

HPs Linux-based BladeSystem solutions integrated consoles and power control help us to manage more servers without increasing our staff, says Mike Lowe, director, Chipset Engineering, AMD. They help AMD to take advantage of the latest HP and AMD technologies and increase the density of our engineering design compute cluster.

AMDs infrastructure is its first large deployment of blade servers in its engineering design environment. AMD says that it is experiencing an increase in performance-per-watt of up to 30% in the server blade-based environment, compared to currently installed standard rack-mounted servers.

AMDs silicon design team will use the systems for electronic design automation applications, such as architecture, circuit and verification tasks on existing and future microprocessor design projects, Lowe adds.