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64-bit Computing	Format	Date
Migrating from Solaris SPARC to Solaris x86 on AMD64	HTML	05/31/2007
Sun Solaris 10 on AMD: Building World-Class Security on AMD Architecture	HTML	01/18/2007
Sneaking Up on 64-Bit Windows	HTML	10/24/2006
Grid Computing Distributes the Load with AMD Processors	HTML	10/12/2006
Linux Apps on x64: One Codebase, Two Platforms, Great Performance	HTML	09/14/2006
Tools and Techniques for Developing 64-Bit Linux Software	HTML	09/14/2006
Widen Your Opportunities with 64-Bit Compilers: Three More Choices	HTML	09/01/2006
Widen Your Opportunities with 64-Bit Compilers: Portland Group Inc. Compiler Suite	HTML	08/24/2006
Widen Your Opportunities with 64-Bit Compilers: GNU Compiler Collection	HTML	08/15/2006
24 Considerations for Moving Your Application to a 64-bit Platform	HTML	06/30/2006
Widen Your Opportunities with 64-Bit Compilers: Sun Studio	HTML	06/29/2006
Optimizing Applications for 64-Bit Windows, Part I	HTML	06/29/2006
Optimizing Applications for 64-Bit Windows, Part II	HTML	06/29/2006
Discovering the 64-bit Tools in Visual Studio 2005	HTML	06/28/2006
Widen Your Opportunities with 64-Bit Compilers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005	HTML	06/28/2006
AMD64 and the New Math	HTML	06/27/2006
The New General-Purpose Registers in 64-Bit Mode	HTML	06/27/2006
NUMA, HyperTransport, 64-Bit Windows, and You	HTML	06/26/2006
Widen Your Opportunities with 64-Bit Compilers: Introduction—64 Bits or Bust	HTML	06/06/2006
64-bit Computing: Just What the Doctor Ordered	HTML	03/31/2006
Bridge the Gap Between 32- and 64-bit Applications	HTML	03/31/2006
AMD Developer Central: The One-Stop Shop for 64-bit Development	HTML	03/24/2006
Up and Running on Solaris 10	HTML	05/18/2005
C/C++ Compiler Switches for Fast, Portable 64-Bit Code	HTML	03/07/2005
The Expanding Opteron Ecosystem	HTML	10/26/2004
A Linux Toolbox for AMD64 Developers	HTML	08/23/2004
Sun Solaris for AMD64—What It Will Mean	HTML	04/14/2004
Intel Follows AMD's Lead with 64-bit Extensions	HTML	03/30/2004
Operating System Choices for the AMD Opteron Processor	HTML	03/25/2004
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Commercial Client	Format	Date
CCD Focus - Development for Commercial Client Applications: The Full Scoop	HTML	04/09/2007
CCD Focus - Developing with Native Code: What You Need to Know for Commercial Client Development	HTML	04/09/2007
CCD Focus - Software Performance and Optimization: A Primer for the Commercial Client Developer	HTML	04/09/2007
CCD Focus - Performance Advantages from AMD's Latest Architectural Enhancements: An Introduction for the Commercial Client Developer	HTML	04/09/2007
CCD Focus - Multiple Cores, Multiple Threads, and the Commercial Client Application Developer: Tying it all Together	HTML	04/09/2007
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Enterprise	Format	Date
Enterprise Class Indexing – How the AMD Opteron™ Architecture Supports Highly Scalable and Efficient Enterprise Discovery	HTML	03/29/2007
Index Engines on the AMD Opteron™ – Making Enterprise Class Discovery a Reality	HTML	03/29/2007
Direct to Your Data Center: AMD-Powered Dell Servers	HTML	01/23/2007
One, Two, Three, Four: A Sneak Peek Inside AMD's Forthcoming Quad-Core Processors	HTML	01/18/2007
AMD TSC Drift Solutions in Red Hat Enterprise Linux®	HTML	12/14/2006
Four Letters For Defining A System: R-A-S-M	HTML	08/09/2006
DB2 9 on AMD: A Perfect Match	HTML	08/03/2006
The Brave New World of Autonomic Management	HTML	06/20/2006
Develop for Pennies, Save Money with AMD Servers	HTML	05/15/2006
AMD-based Blade Servers: A Really Good Thing	HTML	03/31/2006
Redefining x64 Industry Standard Servers	PDF	09/01/2005
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From our Partners	Format	Date
Desktop Linux 2006: The Year in Review	PDF	01/25/2007
Creating a Multi-Boot Disk for Machines With AMD Opteron Processors	HTML	06/29/2006
Step-by-Step Install Procedures for Multiple Operating Systems on AMD64	HTML	06/29/2006
White Paper: J2SE 5.0 Performance on AMD Opteron	HTML	06/29/2006
Sun Studio Technical Articles	HTML	01/06/2006
C++ Compile and Runtime Performance	HTML	01/01/2006
Eliminating Nonreentrant Library Calls in Multithreaded Programs	HTML	01/01/2006
The Sun Studio Performance Tools	HTML	11/10/2005
Sun Studio Compilers and AMD64 ABI	HTML	11/01/2005
Use Profile Feedback to Improve Performance	HTML	09/01/2005
Using the best compiler options	HTML	06/24/2005
A NUMA API for LINUX	PDF	05/04/2005
Floating Point Computing: A Comedy of Errors	HTML	01/20/2004
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Graphics, Imaging and Multimedia	Format	Date
Get Extraordinary Performance By Exploiting the GPU	HTML	08/13/2008
Framewave: A fast, efficient library for signal processing	HTML	04/30/2008
AMD Performance Library on Linux®: Making the Penguin Fly	HTML	12/17/2007
Introduction to DirectX's Direct3D 10	HTML	07/12/2007
Illuminating Shaders: Getting Started Developing Pixel Shaders for Lighting	HTML	03/22/2007
Using the New AMD Performance Library	HTML	03/12/2007
AMD Sets Up Shop In Second Life	HTML	02/15/2007
AMD Performance Library: Blazing your Way to Glory	HTML	02/08/2007
Image Processing The Easy Way	PDF	11/21/2006
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HPC	Format	Date
Power Processing with the Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003	HTML	04/17/2007
How InfiniPath Makes Its AMD High-Performance Clusters So Fast	HTML	11/19/2004
New Development Tools Tackle Code Challenges on Massive HPC Clusters	HTML	06/30/2006
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Optimization and Performance	Format	Date
CodeSleuth: New Performance-Analysis Tool for Java Applications	HTML	08/11/2008
Multiple Cores + Shared Caches = Application Performance Boosts—If You Know How	HTML	07/14/2008
Increased performance with AMD CodeAnalyst™ software and Instruction-Based Sampling (on Linux)	PDF	07/01/2008
Performance Optimization of Windows Applications on AMD Processors, Part II	HTML	06/16/2008
Performance Optimization of Windows Applications on AMD Processors, Part I	HTML	06/09/2008
How JVMs use Escape Analysis to Improve Application Performance	HTML	01/31/2008
Using AMD's Performance Library on Windows®: How To Get Smashing Performance	HTML	12/17/2007
Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS): A New Performance Analysis Technique for AMD Family 10h Processors	PDF	11/16/2007
Tools and Techniques for GPU Performance Profiling	HTML	09/25/2007
Develop Blazing Fast Code with Microsoft Visual Studio® 2008 (code-named “Orcas”) and AMD Tools	HTML	09/07/2007
Optimize on AMD Opteron and Run Great Everywhere	HTML	05/08/2007
The Windows NUMA API—What It Is and Why You Care	HTML	04/17/2007
Future-Proofing Applications Using Large Data Sets	HTML	01/16/2007
NUMA optimization in Windows Applications	HTML	01/16/2007
Processor Cache 101: How Cache Works	HTML	11/28/2006
Processor Cache 102: Accelerating AMD64	HTML	11/28/2006
CodeAnalyst Performance Analyzer for Linux: Getting the Most Out of AMD Processors	HTML	11/07/2006
Sun Tunes Solaris Tools for AMD Opteron-based Systems	HTML	09/29/2006
AMD's Robust and Useful Math Library	HTML	06/21/2006
Optimizing for Multi-Core with AMD CodeAnalyst	HTML	06/06/2006
9 Ways to Make Your AMD Server Fly Using Solaris 10	HTML	05/12/2006
Using AMD CodeAnalyst with Java	HTML	06/30/2006
Supersizing Java: Large Pages on the Opteron Processor, Part 2	HTML	03/02/2006
Supersizing Java: Large Pages on the Opteron Processor, Part 1	HTML	02/14/2006
An introduction to analysis and optimization with AMD CodeAnalyst™	HTML	01/05/2006
Code Tuning: Seeing Is Believing	HTML	12/21/2005
Cache or Check? CodeAnalyst Addresses Performance Deficits	HTML	11/11/2005
Got Bottlenecks? CodeAnalyst Can Help	HTML	10/20/2005
Serious Math: Optimizing LAPACK and FFTs	HTML	09/26/2005
Free AMD Tools Help Developers Build, Tune 32-Bit, 64-Bit Code	HTML	09/21/2005
Performance Optimization of 64-bit Windows Applications using Visual Studio 2005, on AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors	HTML	07/01/2005
Scalable Informatics: Computational Chemistry Performance Analysis	PDF	05/03/2005
Your Processor, Your Compiler, and You: The Case of the Secret CPUID String	HTML	04/29/2005
Microsoft® Windows® XP and Windows® Server 2003 Processor Speed Reporting	PDF	02/25/2005
Solaris 10: One Source Tree, Three Platforms	HTML	11/29/2004
Beating the Memory Performance Curve	HTML	09/17/2004
Optimizing Your C/C++ Applications, Part 2	HTML	07/16/2004
Optimizing Your C/C++ Applications, Part 1	HTML	06/21/2004
Memory Bandwidth and the Performance of Scientific Applications: A Study of the AMD Opteron™ Processor	PDF	06/01/2004
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Parallel Programming	Format	Date
Blowing the Socks off the AMD Multicore Threadfest Competition	HTML	04/30/2008
Concurrent Data Collections: Prebuilt Threading Solutions for Real Programmers	HTML	03/31/2008
A New Approach to Parallel, Multicore Development, Part II	HTML	03/27/2008
A New Approach to Parallel, Multicore Development, Part I	HTML	10/31/2007
Massive Multi-Core Processors: The Gamer's Edge	HTML	10/04/2007
Multi-Core Processors - The Next Evolution in Computing	PDF	09/10/2007
Tips For Multithreaded, Multicore Game Development, Part 2	HTML	05/02/2007
Multi-Core Event Based Profiling: Using AMD CodeAnalyst™ to profile Java applications	HTML	03/21/2007
Exploiting Multi-Core Processors in Windows Vista	HTML	02/08/2007
Tips For Multithreaded, Multicore Game Development, Part 1	HTML	02/02/2007
Megatasking With Four Cores — And More	HTML	12/14/2006
Doom on AMD: Experiment with Multi-threaded Game Development	HTML	12/13/2006
Lock-Free Programming on AMD Multi-Core Systems	HTML	12/05/2006
Multithreaded Producer-Consumer: The Easy Way	HTML	12/05/2006
AMD's Multiple Threads, Multiple Cores, Multiple Gains: Part 3	HTML	12/04/2006
The Secret of Java Thread Pools	HTML	11/21/2006
OpenMP: Getting Fancy With Implicit Parallelism	HTML	11/21/2006
OpenMP: More than Just Optimizing Loops	HTML	11/07/2006
Fibers: Windows Threads for Control Freaks	HTML	10/31/2006
Taking Advantage of Concurrent Programming for Windows, Part 4: Concurrent Code Cornucopia	HTML	10/31/2006
Using Threaded Queues to Get Around Slow I/O	HTML	10/24/2006
AMD's Multiple Threads, Multiple Cores, Multiple Gains: Part 2	HTML	10/18/2006
AMD's Multiple Threads, Multiple Cores, Multiple Gains	HTML	09/26/2006
Taking Advantage of Concurrent Programming for Windows, Part 3: Locality Effects in .NET Multi-Core Programming	HTML	09/26/2006
Making Multi-Cores Count: An ISV Licensing Primer	HTML	09/14/2006
Taking Advantage of Concurrent Programming for Windows, Part 2: Multi-core Programming in .NET	HTML	08/29/2006
Taking Advantage of Concurrent Programming for Windows, Part 1: The Simplest Multi-core Parallelism That Could Possibly Work	HTML	08/23/2006
Device Driver and BIOS Development for AMD Multiprocessor and Multi-Core Systems	PDF	08/04/2006
AMD's New Designs on Software: NUMA	HTML	06/27/2006
Implicit Threading, Explicit Threading: What's Best, How to Choose	HTML	06/27/2006
Performance Guidelines for AMD Athlon™ and AMD Opteron™ ccNUMA Multiprocessor Systems	PDF	06/23/2006
Living in a Multi-Core World: Tips for Developers	HTML	06/21/2006
Coarse-Grained Vs. Fine-Grained Threading for Native Applications, Part I	HTML	06/02/2006
Coarse-Grained Vs. Fine-Grained Threading for Native Applications, Part II	HTML	06/02/2006
Taking Game Performance to the Max with Threading	HTML	05/15/2006
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Processor Architecture	Format	Date
Going to Barcelona: A Modern Architecture for Breakthrough Software Performance	HTML	09/07/2007
Barcelona's Innovative Architecture Is Driven by a New Shared Cache	HTML	08/14/2007
SSE128: AMD's New Floating-Point Enhancements	HTML	06/08/2007
Barcelona: AMD's Next-Generation Quad-Core Microprocessor	PDF	03/28/2007
AMD Deep Inside: The Power of Embedded Computing, Part 1	HTML	01/16/2007
AMD Deep Inside: The Power of Embedded Computing, Part 2	HTML	01/16/2007
Basic Performance Measurements for AMD Athlon™ 64 and AMD Opteron™ Processors	HTML	12/12/2006
AMD's 64-Bit Processors - Which One Is Which?	HTML	11/30/2006
Sun's AMD Opteron Compatibility Guarantee	HTML	09/29/2006
Unleash the Hounds with AMD's Upcoming Quad-core Processors	HTML	06/28/2006
Protect Your Vista App with AMD Enhanced Virus Protection	HTML	06/20/2006
Turning Silicon into Gold: AMD Alchemy Embedded Processors	HTML	06/16/2006
Advancing the State of the Microprocessor Art	HTML	05/30/2006
Review: Two High-End AMD64 Workstations: Twice the Processors, Twice the Passion	HTML	06/03/2005
Security Ahoy! Flying the NX Flag on Windows and AMD64 To Stop Attacks	HTML	03/31/2005
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Virtualization	Format	Date
AMD-V™ Nested Paging	PDF	07/07/2008
Live Migration with AMD-V™ Extended Migration Technology	PDF	04/15/2008
Virtualization and You: What AMD-V Means for the Developer	HTML	03/29/2007
Everything You Need To Know About Developing For Virtual Servers	HTML	11/21/2006
Amdahl, Meet AMD: x86 Virtualization Performance Outside the Vacuum	HTML	09/14/2006
Frequently Asked Questions: NUMA, SMP and AMD's Direct Connect Architecture	HTML	08/10/2006
I/O Virtualization and AMD's IOMMU	HTML	08/09/2006
Utilizing IOMMUs for Virtualization in Linux and Xen	PDF	08/07/2006
Processor-Based Virtualization, AMD64 Style, Part I	HTML	06/30/2006
Processor-Based Virtualization, AMD64 Style, Part II	HTML	06/30/2006
Virtualization Using AMD Servers and libVirt	HTML	06/29/2006
To Thread, or Not to Thread, in a Virtualized World	HTML	05/11/2006
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