AMD shot its Istanbul Opteron chip out like a cannon to lead June off, and now we’re seeing Penguin Computing pick it up as an integral part of its Altus Series products. If you’ve never heard of this company, it’s because they aren’t’ exactly consumer-level. Instead, this outfit focuses on high performance computing solutions, and its Altus 1701 and Altus 2701 dual-processor enterprise servers are now available with six-core Opteron CPUs. In fact, this chip can also be fitted into the Altus 1702 twin-node HPC