The result nearly doubles the previous top score for a non-clustered Windows server, a Unisys ES7000 server with 32 Intel Xeon processors. The Madison models are similar to their Itanium 2 "McKinley" predecessors, but will run at a higher clock...
Where HP's current blades emphasise squeezing lots of low-end Pentium III processors into a small space, many in the industry are shifting their focus to higher-powered machines with dual Xeon processors.
IBM posted long-awaited performance scores on Wednesday for its x440 server with 16 Intel Xeon processors, a system it is using to try to impose itself on a key part of the server market. That's ahead of a rival 8-Xeon Hewlett-Packard DL760 G2 that...
The university's physics department will use the high-performance computing cluster, consisting of 940 Dell PowerEdge servers loaded with Red Hat's Linux operating system, for research in physics. That cluster includes more than 2,000 Dell...
The Itanium 2 was chosen for the PowerEdge 3250 specifically for its number-crunching ability and its ability to support much more RAM than a Xeon chip, Dell executives said during a conference call. The company is expected to tout the advantages...
Hewlett-Packard, for example, plans to announce support for the 64-bit version of Windows Server across its ProLiant line of servers. Dell said it will install the 64-bit operating system on its Precision workstation line and on its PowerEdge servers.