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Sun Plans Eight-way Opteron Servers This Year
News Sun may launch an eight-way Opteron processor by the autumn, the company said at its SunLive05 customer event in London on Tuesday. An eight-way Opteron server from Sun would push the boundaries of mid-range computing, particularly if fitted with...
[March 23, 2005, 16:30]
Fujitsu Readies Eight-way Blade Server
News The eight-way server is at the high end of the x86 server spectrum - especially given that AMD's dual-core chips have two processing engines apiece. We're not expecting everybody to want eight-way servers - it is still a large machine - but in...
[March 14, 2006, 9:00]
CeBIT 2002: IBM Squeezes ELiza Into Eight-way Server
News IBM is quick to draw comparisons with its competitors, pointing out that Dell can only supply eight-way machines, while Unisys' 16-way machine takes up an entire rack -- the x440 fits 16 processors into 8U space.
[March 13, 2002, 14:51]
Dual-core Xeons Play To Dell's Strengths
News Two years after ducking out of the eight-way server market, Dell is once again producing servers with eight processors — but without the engineering complexity of its old big-iron plans. In addition, commodity four-way servers are much easier and...
[November 2, 2005, 15:55]
Intel's Xeon Arrives This Summer
News The Xeon still isn't the eight-way parallel Corollary multi-processor which the industry was hoping for but it will be the fastest Pentium II system for transaction processing applications, effectively replacing the Pentium Pro as the ideal server...
[May 20, 1998, 7:00]
Dell Vetoes Eight-processor Server
News We don't plan to bring an eight-way Xeon system to market. Dell once argued that an eight-processor server was powerful enough for most folks. Dell plays a small part in the eight-processor Intel server market, which had sales of $237m in the first...
[July 21, 2003, 13:02]
New Pentium II Xeons Launched
News That may not be in the case, however, with eight-way systems, for which Intel will add support in the second quarter, Miner said. Intel plans to enable eight-way processing via the Profusion chip set gained in its acquisition of Corollary Inc.
[January 6, 1999, 15:51]
Compaq Takes Wraps Off 8-processor Server
News Mary McDowell, vice president and general manager of industry-standard servers, predicted that the eight-way servers will catapult the company from the No.to the No.application service provider spot by 2001.
[August 18, 1999, 9:02]
Benchmarks Don't Measure Up For New Platforms
Leader With Sun preparing an eight-way Opteron server and Intel gearing up for next week’s launch of its next generation multi-processor Xeon platforms, life at the affordable end of performance computing has rarely looked so rewarding.
[March 23, 2005, 12:30]
Intel Unveils Last PIII-based Xeon
News The 900MHz Xeon is really the flagship for eight-way servers," said Tom Garrison, product marketing director at Intel. The larger cache boosts performance and permits computer makers to incorporate the chip in four- and eight-processor servers that...
[March 21, 2001, 7:48]
HP Refreshes Server Lines
News We have determined, based on the performance we anticipate delivering in the x86 space in 2005, that the position of the eight-way will be somewhat marginalised by these next-generation four-way platforms.
[March 30, 2005, 9:30]
Sun-Fujitsu Collaboration Plan Slips
News You can expect low end four- and eight-way systems will probably happen sooner. High-end 16-, 32- and 64-way systems probably will happen in the early part of next year. Instead, higher-end models with more than eight processors is not likely to...
[January 26, 2006, 10:20]
AMD Presses On Into Server Market
News We're not going to go jumping with both feet into the eight-way market. HotRail had been planning to launch a chipset that would have allowed PC manufacturers to build machines with six or eight AMD Athlon processors, but has decided to pull out of...
[May 3, 2000, 16:06]
Bluetooth Needs Long PINS For Security
News The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has told users to set eight-digit PINs when pairing two devices, and take other precautions, after a report described a way for hackers to crack the security codes on Bluetooth devices and seize control of them.
[June 27, 2005, 17:55]
Compaq Ignites Wildfire Servers
News Moreover, the servers are expected to offer near-linear scalability: a 16-way server will be almost twice as fast as an eight-way system, for example. Up to 16 nodes can be clustered under VMS or eight nodes under Tru64.
[April 5, 2000, 8:30]
Google's Enterprise Search Finally Reaches UK
News The Search Appliance is available in three models; the single departmental level GB-1001, the five-way GB-5005 for high priority services and the eight-way GB-8008 for supporting global business units.
[October 20, 2004, 15:10]
AMD Prepares Chip Onslaught On Intel
News It is designed for use in four-way and eight-way servers. AMD also mapped aggressive plans to launch eight new Athlon and Duron chips by the middle of next year. However, PC makers said they did not need the larger cache sizes of the chip for two...
[November 14, 2000, 9:03]
Compaq Abandons Unisys Servers
News The right business decision was to focus sales and support around the ProLiant eight-way," she said. As we were aggressively moving after the data centre market, 95 percent of them were landing on eight-way computers.
[May 1, 2001, 8:59]
Dell Wants Your Business Business
News If you look at the sales data today, eight-way machines are a tiny niche — essentially ninety percent is four-way on x86. At one point we did see an eight way server, but as part of our scale-out and scalable enterprise strategy, we find that...
[June 9, 2006, 15:45]
IBM Itanium 2 Servers Coming By Early 2003
News Linux on the x440 is very good in the four- to eight-way space," but more work is needed for systems with more processors. We'll initially release it as a four-way. That product sells today in an eight-processor configuration and will be sold in a...
[October 3, 2002, 7:27]
