Carl & Intel Investors - Intel's 8-way 450 MHz Xeon Profusion Servers will be demonstrated at COMDEX by THREE customers - HP, IBM and Compaq.
The 8-way Xeon Platforms look like they will be launched in Q1 of
next year, adding yet another high-end revenue stream to Intel's sales.
Paul
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Eight-way server field steps to the foreground
By David Pendery
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 6:58 AM PT, Nov 7, 1998
IT professionals will get their first glimpses of eight-way Intel servers at Comdex in Las Vegas the week of Nov. 16, when IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Compaq show systems based on Intel's forthcoming Profusion eight-way chip set.
The Windows NT servers will not be available in volume until 1999's first quarter, but analysts said industry trends and customer requirements indicate that eight-way servers will be in demand.
"[Eight-way servers] will be eye-opening to a lot of IS executives who are used to four-way architectures and haven't explored consolidating servers," said James Gruener, a senior analyst at the Aberdeen Group, in Boston.
A source close to IBM's Netfinity development said IBM will demonstrate a model powered by eight 450-MHz Xeon processors. The unit will also feature IBM's Hot-Add PCI technology.
Compaq will house its eight-way servers in its 14U rack-mounted ProLiant 7000 chassis. Compaq has the distinction of having contributed technology that is incorporated within the Profusion chip
set. It developed many of the chip set's I/O functions, notably 64-bit, 66-MHz PCI technology and Compaq's HotPlug PCI capability.
"It's a pretty dramatic change for Compaq in developing the overall industry standards," said Mary McDowell, Compaq vice president of industry standard servers.
HP will also show an eight-way 450-MHz Xeon server at Comdex. The unit is housed in HP's 7U rack-mounted LXr 8000 chassis. Since the LXr 8000's release, HP has designated the product as eight-way upgradable, destined to replace HP's eight-processor, Pentium Pro-based LXr Pro.
IBM Corp., in Armonk, N.Y., is at www.ibm.com. Compaq Computer Corp., in Houston, is at www.compaq.com. Hewlett-Packard Co., in Palo Alto, Calif., is at www.hp.com.
David Pendery is an InfoWorld reporter.
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