Nforce and UDA deliver dollar saving multi-PC image

NVIDIA'S NFORCE core logic and its unified driver architecture (UDA) have yielded record-breaking cost and time savings for qualifying and deploying nForce-based PCs. Northeast Utilities (NU), New England's largest energy provider, is one company that has reaped handsomely from its multi-PC image.

NU employs approximately 6,500 people at 60 locations in three different states. Last November, the Fortune 500 company deployed the Athlon XP-based Compaq D315 business PC from HP. This PC was designed around Nvidia's first generation nForce platform processors. With the launch of the HP D325 PC, which supports nForce2, NU should in theory be able to deploy the D315 image onto the newer PC without problems.

NU did just that and according to its systems engineer Matt Boyajian, "Our image showed perfect stability--requiring no additional profiles. We could physically remove the hard disk drive from the HP D325 system, place it in a Compaq D315, and run it flawlessly. This is the first optimal multi-machine-capable image that we have ever seen. Whenever we have tried this with other vendors' equipment, the images have been riddled with useless drivers and performed unacceptably. The HP D325 with nForce2 was everything that was promised, and more."

Because NU has validated Nvidia as the only vendor to enable single platform image deployment for corporate IT environments, this has to be very good news for AMD in its efforts to become more enterprise worthy. With Athlon 64 only months away, this enterprise breakthrough will likely make the AMD64 platform more appealing. µ

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