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Rackspace Private Cloud Deployment Enables Breakthrough Discoveries

PORTLAND,
Ore., April 11, 2013</b>&nbsp;- <b>OpenStack Summit</b> – AMD (NYSE: AMD)
today announced that The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has deployed
<a href="http://www.seamicro.com/products">SeaMicro
SM15000-OP</a>T
servers with a combined 1,024 AMD OpteronT processor cores in 20 rack units (35
inches of space). These servers are the foundational infrastructure for a
new computing cloud, powered by OpenStack, and will be used for cutting edge
research and computational biology – creating a powerful cloud computing
infrastructure that will advance research in multiple engineering and science
disciplines.

Research projects today
increasingly require inter-disciplinary collaboration, large amounts of data
storage and advanced computational capabilities. Procuring and managing
computing and storage infrastructure creates overhead that takes up valuable
time and energy from a research team’s staff.&nbsp; With cloud computing,
researchers are freed from the burden of managing IT equipment and can focus on
their research.&nbsp; This new deployment, also featured in an AMD case study,
allows the broader UTSA community to realize the benefits of cloud computing by
making it more widely available and easier to use.&nbsp;

”World class computing advances
UTSA’s cutting edge research and discovery of new knowledge,” said C. Mauli
Agrawal, dean, UTSA College of Engineering. ”As an emerging research
university, this project supports our mission of providing world-class
education, outstanding research, and economic contributions to the region.”

The computing cloud was a joint
win with Rackspace. The SeaMicro SM15000T server has been <a href="http://www.seamicro.com/openstack">certified
</a>to be Private Cloud ready, and Rackspace Private Cloud
Software will be deployed at UTSA to provide a flexible and efficient computing
cloud. This will serve as the basis for a managed, private computing and
storage cloud, accessible by the entire UTSA research community.

”As the computing backbone of
UTSA’s cloud infrastructure, AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 server will provide
researchers tremendous computing power and storage to help them make
breakthrough discoveries in a variety of disciplines,” said Dhiraj Mallick,
Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Server Solutions,
AMD. ”This infrastructure will help the university attract top talent, increase
competitiveness for research funding, and advance towards designation as a
premier research institution. Whether the project is to do a large scale study
of proteins, simulate high throughput biochemical systems, or analyze
computational fluid dynamics, the SM15000 server provides a powerful and
flexible cloud computing platform.”

AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000 system is the
highest-density, most energy-efficient server in the market. In 10 rack units,
it links 512 compute cores, 160 gigabits of I/O networking, more than five
petabytes of storage with a 1.28 terabyte high-performance supercompute fabric,
called FreedomT Fabric. The SM15000 server eliminates top-of-rack switches,
terminal servers, hundreds of cables and thousands of unnecessary components for
a more efficient and simple operational environment.

AMD’s SeaMicro server product
family currently supports the next generation AMD OpteronT (”Piledriver”)
processor, Intel® Xeon® E3-1260L (”Sandy Bridge”) and E3-1265Lv2&nbsp; (”Ivy
Bridge”) and Intel® AtomT N570 processors. The SeaMicro SM15000 system also
supports the Freedom Fabric Storage products, enabling a single system to
connect with more than five petabytes of storage capacity in two racks. This
approach delivers the benefits of expensive and complex solutions such as
network attached storage (NAS) and storage area networking (SAN) with the
simplicity and low cost of direct attached storage.

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