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Intel based blades at the IDF

Tuesday, April 17. 2007

The Register reports about announcement of quad and dual socket Intel Blades for our Modular Server chassis.

The four-socket blade server will fit into Sun's existing Blade 8000 chassis and should ship in the second half of this year. The system will be based on the four-core "Tigerton" version of Xeon from Intel and will support up to 128GB of memory.

I would prefer the Opteron Blades (an surely when Barcelona is out) out of several reasons like nested pages, better overall architecture and stuff like that, but your milage with your respective workload may vary. It´s certainly a good thing that we offer the Intel Blades for such workloads.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 07:47 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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We had 1U quad Opterons. It is impossible to cool 4x Opteron 8220SE. 4x 8220 is working, but still very very hot.

How many sockets does the blade have? 16? 32? This surely produces a lot of heat, too.

#1 molli123 (Homepage) on 2007-04-17 09:57 (Reply)

The opteron blade chassis blade has 4 sockets per blade. The whole chassis can cold 40 sockets. But we needed to design a special air-flow to cool the gear down.

#1.1 Joerg (Homepage) on 2007-04-17 10:24 (Reply)

Golem has pics from the sun hardware: http://www.golem.de/0704/51741.html

32x FB-Dimm surely produces a lot heat! Probably the same amount as a quad opteron System... that's how much? 1200W per blade?

#1.1.1 molli123 (Homepage) on 2007-04-17 18:58 (Reply)

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