Mar, 2002 : Intel Launches Dual-Processor Low-Power Servers
📅 - Hardware manufacturer Intel (intel.com) announced on Tuesday that it had introduced the industry's first dual processing capabilities for thin, low-power ?ultra-dense? blade servers.
Dual processor systems containing the new Low Voltage Intel Pentium III processors at 800 MHz, says Intel, offer up to 63 percent higher performance, in third-party testing, than the corresponding single-processor devices. The new processors are also equipped with server-specific improvements including a large memory support of up to four gigabytes.
Popular among service providers, and other organizations that emphasize the conservation of energy and real estate, ?ultra-dense? blade servers are typically designed to contain the largest number of processors possible, while maintaining the smallest size and lowest thermal requirements. The equipment is generally used in applications like firewall protection and Web hosting.
The ?ultra-dense? blade server equipment, says Intel, is a part of the larger server blade market, which is identified by servers containing multiple motherboards stacked either vertically or horizontally.
?Today's announcement for dual-processing in ?ultra-dense? servers increases the capabilities for this emerging market segment,'' said Richard Dracott, director, Intel Enterprise Platforms Group. ?These systems offer significant real estate, performance and power benefits versus single processor systems.''
Each of the processors in side the new dual processor systems, says Intel, contains 512 KB of on-chip level 2 cache memory. According to the company, they are also the first ?ultra-dense? Intel dual processing chips to support faster PC133 SDRAM memory and a 133 MHz system bus.
Intel says it expects blade server systems using the new chip to be released later this year by Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens and other major OEMs. Dual-processor motherboards based on the equipment, says Intel, are already available from applied computing companies such as Force Computers, I-Bus/Phoenix and Kontron.
Dual processor systems containing the new Low Voltage Intel Pentium III processors at 800 MHz, says Intel, offer up to 63 percent higher performance, in third-party testing, than the corresponding single-processor devices. The new processors are also equipped with server-specific improvements including a large memory support of up to four gigabytes.
Popular among service providers, and other organizations that emphasize the conservation of energy and real estate, ?ultra-dense? blade servers are typically designed to contain the largest number of processors possible, while maintaining the smallest size and lowest thermal requirements. The equipment is generally used in applications like firewall protection and Web hosting.
The ?ultra-dense? blade server equipment, says Intel, is a part of the larger server blade market, which is identified by servers containing multiple motherboards stacked either vertically or horizontally.
?Today's announcement for dual-processing in ?ultra-dense? servers increases the capabilities for this emerging market segment,'' said Richard Dracott, director, Intel Enterprise Platforms Group. ?These systems offer significant real estate, performance and power benefits versus single processor systems.''
Each of the processors in side the new dual processor systems, says Intel, contains 512 KB of on-chip level 2 cache memory. According to the company, they are also the first ?ultra-dense? Intel dual processing chips to support faster PC133 SDRAM memory and a 133 MHz system bus.
Intel says it expects blade server systems using the new chip to be released later this year by Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens and other major OEMs. Dual-processor motherboards based on the equipment, says Intel, are already available from applied computing companies such as Force Computers, I-Bus/Phoenix and Kontron.
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