xen discuss - Mar 2008 - AMD Barcelona Technical Training Opportunities for SW Developers - LA Area - Week of March 10

We have some open slots in our AMD Barcelona Technical Training classes
in the LA area next week.

Since Solaris is one of the "Barcelona ready" operating systems, we
thought this could be of interest to this audience.

 


AMD Barcelona Technical Training for Software Partners


 

AMD would like to invite you to participate in several technical
training opportunities focused on our recently released quad-core
processor, Barcelona. Barcelona brings to market key technology changes
that can be exploited and tuned for performance from the operating
system, compiler, and application layers.

 

AMD has been working with our training partner, Mindshare, to create and
tune their AMD Processor Architecture class and PC Virtualization class
to cover the changes with Barcelona. Their instructors have been working
side by side with AMD to prepare and participate in the Barcelona
Launch. 

 

We believe these training offerings will short cut the time for your
organization to understand the Barcelona technology changes and put in
place a plan to take advantage of them in your software products. A
precise understanding of Barcelona will help your software teams make
better design and implementation decisions for your future products that
will run on the multi-core x86 architectures - a definite win-win
proposition.

 

After the session is over, your teams will have access to the latest
updates to the training materials via the Mindshare website. As we learn
more and incorporate our learning into the training materials, we will
share it with you.

 

 

 

 

Monday

 March 10

9am-5pm

Santa Monica, CA.

 

Wednesday

March 12

9am-5pm

Costa Mesa, CA.

 

 

Barcelona Overview for Software Developers

*         AMD64 architecture - processor modes and 64-bit 

*         Quad core and multi-threading

*         Cache architecture, including the shared L3 cache

*         Software and the caches, and how to help the processor

*         Paging, the TLB, and large pages, and software memory
management

*         Hypertransport and multiple memory controllers

*         Software and NUMA

*         Performance Measurement, hardware help and CodeAnalyst

*         Software optimization for AMD architecture

*         AMD Developer resources - Developer Center

 

 

 

Tuesday

 March 11

9am-5pm

Santa Monica, CA.

 

Thursday

March 13

9am-5pm

Costa Mesa, CA.

 

 

Virtualization

*	Introduction to Virtualization - What is it? Why is it being
used?

*         Software techniques and the importance of paravirtualization

*         Processor enhancements for virtualization

*         Differences in Approach : AMD-V and Intel VT-x

*         Memory management, and the new features in Barcelona

*         I/O and the future of I/O (why the IOMMU)

*         Impacts of virtualization on software

*         Virtualization products from VMware, Xen and Microsoft

 

 

 

Logistics

 

Interested in registration for these classes? 

Contact Kim White at kim.white@amd.com or 

AMD 800-538-8450 X43127

 

 

 
Kim White
Developer Relations
Software Strategy & Solutions
T 408.749.3127
C 925-998-4252