Sun serves up quad-core Opterons

SUN MICROSYSTEMS has announced a slate of six enterprise servers running AMD's quad -core Opteron processors.

The firm is the latest heavy-duty outfit to adopteron the Opteron in its quad-core flavour, after scratching about waiting for it for months.

The line-up now includes the new Sun Fire X4140 (pictured below), Sun Fire X4240 and the industry’s only 4-socket x64 Opteron based server in a 2U form factor, the Sun Fire X4440. In addition, the Sun Fire X2200 M2, Sun Fire X4100 M2, Sun Fire X4200 M2 servers are now available with the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor.

The Sun Blade X8440 and Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers should be available by the end of June 2008.

Coolcore Technology and Rapid Virtualization Indexing are claimed to help in reducing power, cooling, and space costs for the whole range. µ

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