Firm starts selling AMD Opteron servers

Update 18:45 UT The Polywell pages seem to have got lost in Cyberspatial hypertension (HT).

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A US FIRM APPEARS to have jumped the gun and has started selling Opteron based systems well ahead of the launch date.

A search on Polywell Computers - motto: American made Computers - and using the word Opteron reveals it seems to have a number of systems in the offing.

Here, for example, is the PolyRaxx 1U2C Dual Hammer system, a slim baby which comes with a detailed PDF specification, includes an embedded U320 controller, and can support 16GB of memory, DDR 333 registered memory.

Clock speeds, the blurb said, are to be decided.

It has 2 PCI-X expansion slots and there's a picture of the baby too.

There's even a picture of the Newisys system management module on the site, as well as a system block diagram and the layout of the box.

It uses a 465W power supply, an AMD 8131 PCI-X bridge, an AMD 8111 South Bridge, and includes PCI/Memory cooling fans.

It claims to use the Newisys BIOS, will support MS Windows 2000 Server (Service Pack 3), .NET Server RC1 (32-bit), .NET Server Beta (64 bit), Redhat 32-bix Linux V7.2, and SuSE Linux 64-bit beta.

It has Web based SSL encryption management using an SSH command line interface, and has that nice Newisys featue which allows remote OS reboot.

A blurb claims it runs 32-bit apps faster, has a balanced server design, a 100% light out remote systems management interface, and is based on "industry standard" components for "painless customisation" and "ease of use".

The box also includes one to two hot swap drives, and has embedded SVGA video. µ

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AMD forecasts prices for Hammer (Opteron) servers
AMD names five (six) mobo partners for Sledgehammers
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