AMD 30925 manual AMD Opteron Processor Utilities and Updates, AMD-8000 Series Chipset Drivers

30925 Rev. 3.04 February 2004	Builder’s Guide for AMD Opteron™ Processor-
	Based Servers and Workstations

Servers are systems that are not typically used by just one operator sitting in front of a display attached directly to the server. The server is used to support other computers such as desktops or workstations, connected through a network. A server can be used to supply computational processing to connected thin clients. A thin client is a keyboard and display terminal that has very little computing power of its own, but relies on the server to which it is connected to run applications. A server can also be used to access data stored on very large storage devices. Therefore, a server may need to have the capability to connect to hundreds of disk drives.

Storage servers need to have an ample supply of PCI-X slots that can accept cards used for storage access. For example, a PCI-X SCSI can have four SCSI ports on it. Each port can support up to 15 SCSI drives. Therefore, one SCSI PCI-X card can support up to 60 SCSI drives. If a server has four PCI-X slots, it can support up to 240 SCSI drives.

5.7AMD Opteron™ Processor Utilities and Updates

AMD CPUID—This application executes and displays the return data from the CPUID instruction set. No source code is provided.

AMD Processor Information Display Utility—This utility displays the processor signature, approximate speed, L1/L2 cache sizes, processor revision, and instruction extensions supported.

These utilities can be found and downloaded from http://www.amd.com/us-

en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_871,00.html.

In EMEA, these utilities can be found and downloaded from http://www.amd.com/drivers.

5.8AMD-8000™ Series Chipset Drivers

Table 4 shows AMD-8000 series of chipset components drivers for Microsoft® operating systems.

Table 4. Microsoft® Drivers for the AMD-8000™ Series of Chipset Components

					64-Bit
		32-Bit Operating Systems			Operating
					Systems
Drivers for Microsoft®
	Windows®	Windows	Windows	Windows	Windows
Operating Systems	98	2000	XP Pro	Server	64-Bit
				2003	Editions
					for
					AMD64
AMD-8151™	√	√	√	√	enabled
HyperTransport™ AGP3.0					natively
Graphics Tunnel Driver

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