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IBM and Unisys announce AMD Barcelona servers
IBM AND UNISYS have launched a couple of new server lines based on AMD's quad-core Opteron Barcelona CPUs.
IBM's AMD Barcelona chipped servers are positioned in its lower-end x-Series systems family. Unisys's AMD Barcelona based servers fall higher in its offerings lineup, up in big-tin territory.
IBM announced three memory-heavy rackmount servers targeting financial, technical and scientific applications.
The x3455 is a two-socket system that holds up to 48GB of memory and its prices start at $1,809. The x3655 is also a two-socket model and holds up to 64GB of memory, priced starting at $2,499. The x3755 can have up to four sockets and up to 128GB of memory, with prices starting at $3,407.
The Unisys servers mark its first systems built using AMD chips. Unisys had been an Intel-only server manufacturer because Xeon CPUs handled transaction-intensive database applications well, according to Colin Lacey, Unisys VP of systems and storage.
Unisys decided to start building AMD based servers due to Barcelona's new 'rapid virtualisation indexing' technology. These quad-core Opteron features enable virtual machines to manage memory more directly, improving performance.
This newest Unisys server is the ES7000 Model 7405R, an eight-socket, quad-core server line that Unisys claims can handle up to 128 virtual machines. That's up to four virtual machines running on each CPU core. Unisys ES7000 model ES7540R prices start out at $21,000, up to about $50,000 or more, depending on configuration.
Unisys said that it will continue to sell its lines of Intel based servers. In addition, it announced several new professional services offerings focused on server virtualisation planning and implementation. µ
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BTW, Packer had Summer Home nearby in 1971 & My Control Data was at peak. Dad (capt von Drashek) was Grabbing all Medical Computing could get from kodak for decades already.(memristors commentos).On to today.

Cheap models might be one way cache crossbar(from L1 thru L2 to L3) with Huge Memory address added. While Expensive models might & I mean Might, be Two? Way cache Crossbar, Barcelona claimed to incorporate. Usually there is NO entry into L1 cache, except thru backdoor of I/O, So two way is quite complex or impossible. Dit,Dit,Dot,Dot,Dot.Two Ways on Same Crossbar? Really!!!
Another OLD gimmick. Yet each gimmick brings on advancement. As thats gimmicks purpose. CPU Chip photos seem to indicate such extreme complexity. I am pretty sure Barcelona will be moving up from cellar of Lower Cost as Mapping continues.
drashek
What IBM and Unisys have done is show intel that they have a crap FSB-bolt-on solution that doesn't really do a good job in server configuration CPU scaling (but, we knew that!)
All we have left are the Intel-Fanboiz raving about a better Crysis FPS - Eat this!