1. THE AMD OPTERON PROCESSOR FOR MULTIPROCESSOR SERVERS Chetana N. Keltcher Kevin J. McGrath Ardsher Ahmed Pat Conway Advanced Micro Devices

3. Introduction AMD 64 bit architecture AMD Opteron Architecture

4. Terminology AMD 64 bit architecture Programmer’s model for the x86-64 architecture.

6. Terminology Core microarchitecture Processor core block diagram.

7. Terminology AMD Different HT link Configuration

9. The main approach. AMD Different HT link Configuration. Standard CPU HT Configuration cHT 16x16 HT 16x16 HT 16x16 BIOS Start HT Table INT 19 Remove CPU 0 1 2

10. The main approach. HT link Configuration application. Standard CPU HT Configuration cHT 16x16 HT 16x16 HT 16x16 0 1 2 0 HT Table INT 19 BIOS Start BIOS Hang

11. The main approach. HT link Configuration application. Tow-way CPU configuration HT application (Support 3 HT Table)

12. The main approach. HT link Configuration application. Four-way CPU configuration HT application

13. The main approach. HT link Configuration application. Four-way CPU configuration HT application (Support 15 HT Table)

14. The main approach. HT link Configuration application. Eight-way CPU configuration HT application (Support 63 HT Table)