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To: jhg_in_kc who wrote (87066)	8/22/1999 3:36:00 AM
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Thread - Dell to announce Profusion product (no surprise) techweb.com Dell Enters Profusion Fray (08/20/99, 6:28 p.m. ET) By Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek Dell said it plans to deliver an eight-processor Pentium III Xeon server at the end of September. Dell, which will announce the product on Monday, joins several vendors shipping similar eight-way systems based on the Profusion chip set from Intel, which provides technology to let vendors ship standardized systems of up to eight Intel processors. The previous limit on standardized Intel-architecture servers was four processors, although some vendors shipped proprietary systems running up to 64 processors. Dell envisions its system as primarily appealing to users looking to consolidate smaller servers onto fewer, larger systems for ease of management and space savings. Other vendors, IT managers, and analysts said the servers will also be popular in e-commerce applications, as well as data-mining applications and other applications requiring large databases. However, users also questioned whether the servers will have the scalability and stability required for enterprise applications. Dell said its system will be distinguished from other, similar systems by its low pricing, and by compatibility with the entire Dell PowerEdge line of disk drives, networking cards, and other peripherals. The system is priced starting at $20,999 for a minimal configuration with one processor, 256 megabytes of memory, a 9-gigabyte hard disk drive and network card. Pricing will be $125,000 for an eight-processor system with 16 Gbytes of RAM and 8,550-MHz Xeon processors with 2 Gbytes of memory, two 18-Gbyte hard disk drives, and two dual-port 10/100 Ethernet cards. (By comparison, Compaq is shipping its eight-way server priced at $80,000, casting a shadow on Dell's pricing claim.) The Dell PowerEdge 8450 will be available in one-, two-, four-, six-, and eight-processor configurations running 550-MHz chips with 1 or 2 Mbytes of cache. The system will support 256 Mbytes to 16 Gbytes of memory at launch, with support for 32 Gbytes of RAM by year's end. Internal storage will be limited, as Dell anticipates users will likely hook the server up to storage area networks and other forms of external storage. The system will come with up to two 36-Gbyte internal drives. It has a 7U rack-mountable chassis, and supports Fibre Channel and external SCSI storage. The server will support Windows NT Enterprise Edition, Windows NT Terminal Server Edition, and Windows 2000 Beta 3 immediately, with support for Sun Microsystems' Solaris and Novell NetWare within 30 days. The server will support Linux when Red Hat releases its version of the Linux kernel supporting up to eight processors, which is expected in November or December. The system comes standard with a dual-port 10/100 Ethernet card, and supports up to four 10/100 or gigabit Ethernet cards.