IBM unveils low-cost blades
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Express version of BladeCenter chassis accommodates up to 14 dual-processor servers but costs under $1,000 instead of about $2,800.
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Moving IBM's high-end Power chip family into blades will mean an expansion of BladeSystem abilities and market.
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Chip maker plans for smaller, faster, less power-hungry processors.
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Dell has introduced a new line of blade servers, the PowerEdge 1855 series, equipped with dual Xeon processors. The computer maker says its blades take up less space, cost less and are more economical to operate than traditional servers.
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BOMBAY - US chip maker Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a low-cost Internet access device that could cost just a few hundred dollars, aimed at first-time technology users in the developing world.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced a low-cost blade server chassis, along with several new "business-in-a-box" packages for a wide range of industries, including the growing bioinformatics sector.
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IBM on Friday expanded its blade-server portfolio with six new systems, new options for attached-disk drives, and improved power management.
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Tim Dougherty, director of marketing for IBM&#39;s eServer BladeCenter, said the company&#39;s new BladeCenter machines have increased speed, memory, power management and operating system support in order to widen customers&#39; choices.
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To move the blade server market from the enterprise to small and midsize businesses, IBM on Friday unveiled a new BladeCenter chassis and new blade solutions for SMBs.
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Big Blue's $18,995 QS20 Cell blade servers are geared for encryption, medical imaging and seismic research.
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IBM on Friday unveiled new low-cost storage servers that the computer giant&#39;s using to undercut wares from rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell/EMC in the small- and mid-sized markets.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM announced an upgraded version of itsÂ blade server based on the Cell processorÂ on Wednesday, adding memory and data throughput for better performance on high-end applications, such as graphics and finance. IBM also shaved the size of the server so users can fit 14 of the new IBM BladeCenter QS21s into each chassis, compared to seven units of its predecessor, the QS20. The new version can also function in a diverse blade environment, working alongside computers based on the x86 or PowerPC chip architecture to assign workloads to the most efficient platform, said Paula Richards, product line manager for Cell systems at IBM. "We're seeing many applications where users want to actually marry a quad-core Intel or AMD blade with a Cell blade, so they can use the standard blade for basic workloads, then push their mission-critical, exotic applications off to the Cell platform," Richards said. IBM will begin selling the QS21 in October to users in industries that need to run visual computing tasks, such as 3D rendering, and time-critical jobs like compression and encryption.Â The system relies on the Cell Broadband Engine processor, created for Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation 3 gaming system by the consortium of IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. The QS21 features two 3.2 GHz Cell processors, dual Gigabit Ethernet networking, and Red Hat's Enterprise Linux 5.1 OS. At its maximum density in high-performance computing clusters, the system can run as fast as 6.4 TFLOPS (tera floating point operations per second) in a BladeCenter H chassis, or 25.8 TFLOPS in a 42U rack. "We're not trying to be a general purpose platform here. If you want to run your monthly statements or ERP, that's not what this is about," said Richards. "This is for time-critical, highly intense workloads like financial applications, digital video surveillance, medical imaging, or even digital media and entertainment. Jobs where time is money." The product will supplement IBM's lineup of blade servers, which also includes products running on IBM's PowerPC chips, Intel's Xeon or Core 2 Duo chips, andÂ AMD's Opteron processor. By upgrading the performance of the Cell version of the BladeCenter, IBM will be able to reach more corners of the highly specialized field of high-performance computing, one analyst said. Users buy the Xeon and Opteron BladeCenters for general purpose computing, the PowerPC BladeCenter for jobs in a Unix environment, and the Cell BladeCenter for compute-intensive applications like signal processing and image analysis, including designs from Mercury Computer Systems, a military and aerospace industry contractor, said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst with Insight 64. "They all do different things, so this is a technology update instead of a big change in positioning," Brookwood said. In concert with the QS21, IBM announced version 3.0 of its SDK for Multicore Acceleration, designed to streamline the process of application development for the new platform. IBM will launch the SDK for Multicore Acceleration on October 19, and launch the QS21 on October 26.
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Dell will begin offering on Monday new  "blade" servers at prices it says will bring the ultra-compact  computers into the business mainstream and allow it to grab  market share from rivals HP and IBM.
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IBM will soon begin shipping upgraded models of its HS20 and JS20 blade servers, including a new SCSI (small computer system interface) option for the HS20 that will double the number of SCSI blades that users can fit into a single chassis, the company
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IBM is now offering enterprises the ability to add two small form-factor SCSI drives internally to the five new HS20 models of BladeCenter systems, which are based on the 2.8 GHz to 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon-processor with 64 bit extensions.
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On Sept. 2, IBM (IBM ) and Intel (INTC ) made a strategic move to put themselves at the center of the small but budding computer-hardware industry known as blade servers.
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In the three months since IBM and Intel opened design specifications for Big Blue&#39;s BladeCenter, more than 100 vendors have signed up to use the information, meaning that end users will soon have access to network switches, adapter cards and other