IBM Revamps Xeon Server Design
News The company claims nearly 40 percent speed increase over existing products, and says that the first product in the family -- the four-way eServer xSeries 366 -- also introduces virtualisation and 64-bit features.
[February 22, 2005, 17:50]
IBM Throws Weight Behind Intel's 64-bit Strategy
News However, IBM initially will sell the system not for general use but rather for certain programs such as housing large databases or extracting useful information from sales data, said Deepak Advani, vice president of high-end xSeries servers for IBM.
[April 30, 2003, 7:37]
IBM Announces New Multi-Xeon Server
News IBM on Wednesday announced a new top end to its xSeries server family, a machine that accommodates as many as 32 of Intel's latest Xeon processors. First versions of the x460, with either four or eight processors, will be generally available from...
[June 2, 2005, 9:35]
IBM XSeries 206m review
Reviews Based on the second generation of IBM's Xtended Design Architecture, the xSeries 206m offers a choice of Intel's single- and dual-core processors, up to 8GB of RAM, serial-attached SCSI or SATA drives in hot-swap and redundant configurations...
[January 12, 2006, 11:35]
NetCreations: SBS, IBM And Linux Help Maximize And Showcase Cutting Edge DM
White Papers The ability to upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit, at their own pace made the choice of IBM eServer xSeries x440 a natural. Its ability to cut operating costs and footprint size plus the ability to run Linux resulted in a dramatic decrease in expenditures.
[November 14, 2003, 0:27]
Database Clusters With IBM EServer XSeries 366 And Oracle Database 10g Real Application Clusters (RAC)
White Papers The latest addition to the IBM eServer xSeries product line, the IBM eServer xSeries 366 featuring the 64-bit Intel Xeon Processor MP, is versatile servers that can help customers meet the demands of their Oracle implementations.
[April 23, 2007, 1:00]
Building An HPC Cluster With Linux, PSeries, Myrinet, And Various Open Source Software
White Papers Often, they are already using a Linux/xSeries cluster and would like to benefit from the outstanding 64-bit floating-point performance and capability featured by Power4-based servers. Linux/pSeries clusters for HPC (High Performance Computing) is a...
[September 21, 2004, 3:00]
Performance Of Two-Way Opteron And Xeon Processor-Based Servers For Scientific And Technical Applications
White Papers The second is the IBM eServer xSeries 336, based on the Intel Xeon processor with Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) enabled. Both are two-way servers based on 64-bit versions of x86 processors. This paper compares the performance of two servers...
[August 12, 2008, 1:18]
New Database Benchmark Hits Enterprise "Sweet Spot"
White Papers This benchmark demonstrates the performance of SQL Server 2005 on NetApp RAID-DP storage systems and IBM's new eServer xSeries 460. Network Appliance, IBM, and Microsoft have collaborated on a TPC-C transaction processing benchmark for a 16-way, 64...
[January 1, 2007, 0:00]
Dell In Double-headed Four-way Server Launch
News IBM has announced plans to use the processors in its xSeries 336 servers, which are currently due to ship by mid-May. The hardware maker introduced its Dell PowerEdge 6800 and PowerEdge 6850 server models, each of which feature four of Intel's...
[March 24, 2005, 9:05]
IBM Packs 64 Xeons Into A Single Server
News Systems with the third-generation EXA chipset should begin to arrive "in the beginning of 2005," said Tom Bradicich, chief technology officer of IBM's xSeries server group. Xeon processors are 32-bit chips, limiting the amount of memory they can...
[January 15, 2004, 8:00]
IBM EServer XSeries 226 8488 (Xeon 3GHz) review
Reviews Setting up even the most basic server requires technological know-how, and the eServer xSeries is no exception to this rule. Like many other SME servers, the xSeries 226 we tested has the look of a high-end tower computer.
[August 11, 2005, 9:10]
IBM Summit Server Prepares For Takeoff
News The first Summit machine will be called the x360, part of the xSeries line of Intel-based servers, with Xeon chips running at 1.5GHz or 1.6GHz. Summit began as the XA-64 that will arrive when Intel ships the second generation of its high-end 64-bit...
[November 29, 2001, 14:39]
Clusters Won't Replace High-end Servers, Say Experts
News It's easier to manage a single operating system image than to manage a cluster of smaller nodes," said Jay Bretzmann, the manager of product marketing for IBM's Intel-based xSeries servers. Intel also supports a separate, higher-end family of 64...
[May 27, 2004, 9:45]
IBM Will Make Servers Using Opteron
News IBM will likely offer Opteron in a new server family, alongside its existing Intel-based xSeries servers. Companies have been asking for a server that can deliver relatively high performance, including 64-bit capabilities, for a lower price...
[April 23, 2003, 9:02]
First Foster Server Makes Mainframe Features Mainstream
News In the long run, remote I/O will be the most significant part of this announcement," said Tikiri Wanduragala, senior server consultant for xSeries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Summit was reportedly originally intended to work with 64-bit...
[November 29, 2001, 16:24]
Itanium Dealt Another Blow
News IBM told me they had no other plans for any other Itanium systems," said Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff, citing a discussion with Jay Bretzmann, IBM's manager of product marketing for its xSeries line of Intel-based servers.
[February 28, 2005, 8:05]
IBM Releases 16-chip Intel Servers
News An x440 with 16 processors and 8GB of memory costs $81,000 (about £51,800), said Deep Advani, vice president of IBM's xSeries servers. That system, however, uses 64-bit processors that more gracefully handle large amounts of memory.
[December 18, 2002, 8:25]
