Intel releases low-cost Clear Bay server platform
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Intel expects pricing for Clear Bay blade servers to be roughly similar to rack-mount servers based on the same processor and configuration.
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IBM announced on Friday a lower-cost blade server option--a pared-down chassis geared for small and medium-sized businesses. The new Express version of IBM&#39;s BladeCenter chassis still can accommodate as many
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Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a stripped-down, low-cost computing device as part of a plan to move into developing markets. The chip maker aims to provide 50 per cent of the world with internet and computing
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IBM has released a new low-cost eServer BladeCenter chassis and a unique set of &quot;business-in-a-box&quot; solutions to help lower the cost and speed the time it takes for SMBs to purchase, deploy, and implement blade servers.
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New high-end dual-core Opterons will power servers.
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Chip maker offers few details about its plans for dual-core server processors.
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(InfoWorld) - Later this year, Intel will help server network interfaces take advantage of the major recent advances in datacenters: multiprocessor systems, multicore processors, and virtualization. The company unveiled at Cisco Systems' Networkers user conference a pair of chips for server network cards or motherboards. The Intel 82598 10-Gigabit Ethernet Controller is set for production in September, and the 82575EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller is shipping now to system and component vendors. The company did not disclose pricing. New and emerging technologies are boosting datacenter processing power and helping enterprises take advantage of the systems they've invested in, but network connections are still catching up. They have become the bottlenecks of new, faster datacenters, said Sunil Ahluwalia, a product line manager in Intel's LAN access division. The chips introduced Monday include multiple queues, virtualization capability, packet prioritization, and new storage networking features to break that bottleneck. For example, until now, the chips Intel makes to handle communication between servers and storage or the LAN have essentially just had one path in and out of the system. Sorting out which packet goes to which processor or core, for example, has been a job for the CPU itself, and a strenuous one, Ahluwalia said. It can take all of the CPU's processing power at times. The new chips have multiple queues and software for placing packets in those queues. With 32 transmitting and 64 receiving queues per port, the 10-Gigabit chip can move packets in and out of all the server's processors and cores, balancing the workload and taking advantage of the server's power, Ahluwalia said. The Gigabit Ethernet chip has four transmitting and receiving queues per port. Using the queuing system, the chips can also give certain packets priority so thatÂ important functions can take place quickly over the network. With the chips, Intel also introduced Virtual Machine Device Queues (VMDQ) to allocate packets to different virtual machines on a server. For this feature to work, virtualization software vendors will have to make their softwareÂ cooperate with VMDQ. Intel is working on this with VMWare, XenSource, and Microsoft, though it does not expect those vendors to have compatibility in place by September, said Steve Schultz, an Intel product marketing manager. In addition, the controller chips can work natively with iSCSI storage networks. The 10-Gigabit card also has some features designed for use with emerging FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) technology, Ahluwalia said. An FCoE standard is still being worked out, and the chips don't have FCoE itself, Intel said. With the 10-Gigabit controller, Intel upgrades from a PCI-X bus to the faster PCI Express bus for the first time on a 10-Gigabit Ethernet product. With the new performance features to offload tasks from server CPUs, the chip will be able to achieve full 10Gbps throughput while taking up on 10 percent of CPU cycles, Ahluwalia said.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data center -- while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.
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New lineup of low-cost PCs includes with some multimedia capabilities.
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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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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) on Monday (Nov. 1) rolled out a new Pentium 4 processor and chip set for PC gamers, based on a 1,066-MHz front-side bus technology.
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(InfoWorld) - ClearCube TechnologyÂ launched a long-distance version of its thin client PC system on Monday, hoping to win over users who have complained they have to keep their desktop clients too close to the back-room PC blades. ClearCube's new I9420, I9440, and C7420 user ports all connect to centralized storage and processing via TCP/IP (transmission control protocol/Internet protocol) and an Ethernet or fiber network instead of using a combination of analog and digital signals over standard Cat5 cables. The new design means users can access the centralized blades from desks thousands of miles away, instead of the standard maximum distance of 200 meters. "You could run a user port on a trading floor in Manhattan off a PC blade in New Jersey, no problem, but coast-to-coast would probably be closer to 100 milliseconds latency," said Tom Josefy, director of product management at ClearCube. At latency delays under 70 milliseconds, most users can't tell the difference between a desktop PC and a thin client, he said. "If you had a data center in Dallas or Kansas City, you could probably have your desktop anywhere in the continental U.S., but I wouldn't suggest you run it from Maine to Alaska," Josefy said. The new units also have ASIC chips dedicated to displaying graphics on up to four monitors at once, a key selling point for ClearCube's core user base of stock traders and financial service brokers, as well as vertical industry segments in government and health care. A centralized computing network using thin clients and PC blades can afford greater disaster recovery, better information security, and lower IT management costs than traditional desktop PCs, the company said. However, that's the same sales pitch that companies hear from ClearCube'sÂ competitors, like Hewlett-PackardÂ and IBM. ClearCube hopes its new long-distance capabilities will separate it from the herd. Both the ClearCube desktop user ports and the back-room blades run on a PC-over-IP ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) made by Teradici, replacing the FPGA (field programmable gate array) processor in previous models. The PC blades on the back end run on more powerful Intel processors, either Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Xeon, or Pentium 4, depending on the type of applications and the number of monitors. ClearCube will begin shipping the new PC blade systems by the end of the third quarter, but has not yet announced prices. Â
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HP is the latest to offer a server-storage product targeted to small- to mid-size businesses.
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HP's new server is based on Intel's Tigerton quad-core Xeon processor.
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The server maker plans to announce it's upgraded its low-end servers with faster 1.5GHz UltraSparc IIIi processors.
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In the only raw performance test figures revealed yesterday by Intel Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger at Fall IDF in San Francisco, preliminary tests of the company's forthcoming quad-core "Harpertown" architecture Xeon 5400 show it beating a quad-core Opteron 2300 system in the critical SPEC floating point throughput rate test by just over 4%.
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An Intel open-source project called LessWatts.org hopes to improve the power efficiency of the Linux operating system and applications.