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Dell Supports Customer Demand for Scale-Out Industry-Standard Server Computing

Overview This white paper examines the increasing adoption of volume scale-out x86 industry-standard servers deployed in server farms, clusters, or grid computing environments - and the business and technology drivers behind this trend. The adoption of these solutions is facilitated by declining average sales prices, more powerful microprocessors, and the emergence of software that supports arrays of scale-out servers.

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Publisher	Dell Inc.	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	May 2004	Downloads	80
Format	White Papers
Topics	x86-standard Servers

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