IBM vil benytte Dual-Core Opteron processor

IBM har allerede besluttet at bruge den kommende Dual-Core Opteron processor i deres nye e326 server. e326 serveren vil være klar i løbet af de kommende uger, selvfølgelig med de nuværende Opteron processorer, den afløser e325.

Dual-core chips are all the rage, particularly for servers, whose software is more likely written to take advantage of the parallelism. AMD demonstrated its dual-core Opteron last week. And at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this week, Intel demonstrated a Silicon Graphics server with four dual-core "Montecito" chips, a future version of Itanium, and a dual-core desktop processor.

The e326 has a starting price of $2,189, but most customers will buy more powerful configurations costing more than $4,000, Yost said. The systems can accommodate as much as 16GB of memory, have two 100MHz PCI slots and use faster memory than the e325, Yost said. They're rack-mounted computers 1.75 inches thick.

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