IBM onthult 64-way Pentium III Xeon NUMA servers

Infoworld meldt dat IBM gisteren een 64-way NUMA-Q server heeft aangekondigd. Het systeempje is gebaseerd op de nieuwe 700MHz Pentium III Xeon, die afgelopen maandag door Intel werd gereleased. Met IBM's clustering software kunnen tot 4 servers naast elkaar geplant worden, wat bij elkaar goed is voor 256 processors en 256GB geheugen . Aan een Linux versie voor NUMA servers wordt gewerkt:

"The thrust of this announcement is we can now offer Intel technology from the entry level all the way up to data center-class deployments. If you want to go from two to 64 chips in a single unit from a single vendor, we can offer that," said Steve Frye, who manages the marketing the NUMA-Q brand for IBM's Web Server Unit.
Company officials also announced their intent to deliver a version of Linux optimized for NUMA servers. They hope to deliver a beta version by the end of this year, with the finished version sometime next year.
Using IBM's clustering software, users can lash together up to four 64-chip servers, for a total of 256 chips and 256GB of memory, and reportedly not suffer any performance degradation, according to company officials.

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