All: Data General offering 4-Way XEON servers
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Data General To Introduce
Xeon-based Servers
(08/10/98; 11:13 a.m. ET)
By Mitch Wagner, InternetWeek
Data General plans Monday to unveil a four-way
Xeon-based PC server designed for supporting
Windows-terminal applications as well as databases,
online transaction processing, and Internet applications.
The AViiON AV3700 tower and AV3700R
rack-mounted system runs one to four Xeon processors
at 400 MHz with 512 kilobytes or 1 megabyte of cache.
It has up to four gigabytes of extended data-out dual
in-line memory module memory, six internal bays
supporting up to 54 GB of storage, and external storage
up to 4 terabytes. The system will be available within 30
days. It has six Peripheral Component Interconnect slots
and one shared PCI/Extended Industry Standard
Architecture slot.
A tower configuration will have an estimated street price
starting at $7,500, with a rack-mount version starting at
$8,000. The system includes a single processor with 512
KB of cache and no storage.
The AViiON has a 10/100 Ethernet card and
hot-pluggable power supplies. A modem is bundled with
the system, and, in case of problems, the system will
automatically dial out for help to a Data General
(company profile) service center.
The PC server is available in cluster configurations. Also
for high availability, the system features component
de-configuration. If a processor or memory chip goes
bad, the PC will isolate the bad component, automatically
reboot, and go back online with the bad component
isolated.
Many PC server and workstation vendors are supporting
the Xeon chip, which Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel
announced last month and was delayed for several
weeks because of bugs. Intel said it has resolved the
problems. Dell and Compaq have already started
shipping their Xeon servers.
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