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Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers: a group test review
Reviews The introduction earlier this year of Intel's Xeon 5500 Series processors has given the server market a major boost, and in more ways than one. The Xeon 5500 also sees the first major implementation of QuickPath.
[August 20, 2009, 12:50]
Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges
White Papers In many organizations, IT infrastructure has begun to constrain business efficiency and growth. For the past decade, IT has rapidly added low-cost hardware to accommodate business growth. But with data centers now stretched to capacity in terms of...
[April 23, 2009, 13:15]
Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: Demo
White Papers With up to 9x the performance compared to installed single-core servers, up to 50 percent lower server idle power compared to the previous generation, and unique virtualization capabilities, Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem lets you deliver more...
[April 23, 2009, 13:15]
Top Four Reasons for Deploying Radisys ATCA Blades Based on the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Platform: Evaluating Compute Performance, Overall Cost, Upgrade Path and Thermal Requirements
White Papers Telecom Equipment Manufacturers (TEMs) are in a race against ever-increasing network bandwidth and application deployment. Their service provider customers are quickly moving to 10 gigabyte Ethernet networks, which is placing even more demands on...
[April 22, 2009, 1:24]
Dell PowerEdge T710 review
Reviews The PowerEdge T710 supports two Xeon 5500-series processors and up to 144GB of RAM. The T710's six PCIe slots (two PCIe x16, four PCIe x8), 18 DIMM slots with 144GB maximum RAM, and dual Intel Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) processors have more space to...
[September 21, 2009, 10:16]
Sun Fire X4270/4275 review
Reviews Sun’s new Xeon 5500 lineup is pretty impressive, starting with an unusual low-cost 1U server (the Sun Fire X2270) with a restricted specification for those on a budget . Sun also makes industry-standard servers, such as the Xeon 5500-based Sun Fire...
[August 20, 2009, 12:37]
IBM System x3650 M2 review
Reviews Both vendors offer 1U and 2U implementations, each dual-socket and able to take dual- or quad-core Xeon 5500 processors. The placing of the Xeon 5500 chips isn't of any relevance, but with just 16 memory slots the IBM/Lenovo server can only...
[August 20, 2009, 12:37]
Intel Xeon launch promises faster, greener computing
News Intel on Monday introduced the long-awaited Xeon 5500 microprocessor, previously code-named Nehalem, calling it the biggest announcement since the company first introduced the Pentium Pro chip back in 1995.
[March 31, 2009, 8:49]
IDF: Larrabee, Xeon 3000, Gulftown, Westmere...
Blog Nehalem-EX will be better than the Xeon 5500 by an even greater margin than the 5500 was from its predecessors. Today's hot enterprise fashion, the converged datacentre, gets some new fabric based on Intel's 10GbE networking, there'll be a Xeon...
[September 22, 2009, 19:05]
Stratus adds Nehalem to fault-tolerant servers
News Stratus is launching its servers based on Intel's 5500 Xeon (Nehalem) chip later than mainstream providers such as IBM, HP and Dell. Stratus has upgraded its ftServer range of high-availability servers with the addition of Intel's Nehalem processors.
[August 25, 2009, 9:00]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Blog Among them optimisations for Intel Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) processors, similar enhancements for AMD’s Istanbul chips, plus numerous networking and storage improvements. The fourth update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system (RHEL 5.4...
[September 23, 2009, 22:10]
Automated Energy Efficiency for the Intelligent Business
White Papers This whitepaper looks at how The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with Intel Microarchitecture Nehalem empowers IT to maximize the business value of servers while shrinking energy costs. Efficiency is emerging as a major tool to extend the life of...
[June 23, 2009, 1:19]
Consolidating DSS Workloads on Dell PowerEdge 11G Servers Using Oracle 11g Database Replay
White Papers It also showed that PowerEdge 11G servers equipped with Xeon 5500 Series chipsets for I/O and processor interfacing provide an ideal platform to consolidate legacy database environments. Any server consolidation project must be preceded by a well...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
Apple Mac Pro (2x2.26GHz Xeon, 2009) review
Reviews As with the older Mac Pro, the new model comes in either single-chip quad-core or dual-chip eight-core configurations, but Apple has now upgraded to Intel's Xeon 5500 chips, based on the Nehalem core shared by Intel's Core i7 consumer desktop chips.
[March 23, 2009, 12:09]
Apple puts Nehalem chip in its servers
News The servers, announced on Tuesday, use the quad-core Xeon 5500 Nehalem chip. Apple has updated its Xserve server to include the latest versions of Intel's server processor, Nehalem. The base version is configured with the 2.26GHz version of the...
[April 8, 2009, 13:12]
Alienware MJ-12 8550i review
Reviews Available in single and dual-processor customisations, the MJ-12 8550i features up to eight total processing cores and delivers some 50 per cent greater performance than previous-generation Intel Xeon processor-based workstations.
[June 27, 2007, 10:31]
Fujitsu Primergy RX300 S5 review
Reviews Like the leading vendors, Fujitsu has introduced Xeon 5500 products across its entire range of tower, rack and blade servers. Although the company offers both 1U and 2U rack servers, we've concentrated on the Primergy RX300 S5, a brand-new 2U...
[August 20, 2009, 12:38]
HP introduces Nehalem-based ProLiant servers
News On Monday, HP launched a new range of ProLiant servers based on Intel's Nehalem-based Xeon processor, the 5500. The ProLiant G6 range of 11 rack, blade and tower models targets datacentre capacity, virtualisation and datacentre economics, the...
[March 30, 2009, 20:00]
Sun unveils new x64 server lineup
News The new Sun Fire x64 blade servers, rack servers and workstations, which are powered by Intel's Xeon processor 5500 series, are expected to carry a starting retail price of $1,488 (£1,002). Sun on Tuesday unveiled a line of new x64 servers and...
[April 15, 2009, 8:35]
Lenovo introduces latest ThinkServer lineup
News The increased performance is the result of the use of Intel Xeon 5500 Series processors and up to 128GB of DDR3 memory. Lenovo on Tuesday announced its latest line of ThinkServers, comprising the TD200 and TD200x tower servers and the RD210 and...
[July 2, 2009, 9:35]
