IBM is playing hard to the Intel server crowd.
On Wednesday, the company announced two Intel machines it hopes will pull market share away from competitors such as Dell and Compaq. For starters, IBM is offering the NUMA-Q E410, a 64-way Intel-based computer capable of handling compute-intensive tasks such as data warehousing.
The machine has up to 64G bytes of memory, and comes with the non-uniform memory access (NUMA) architecture, which IBM obtained with its recent acquisition of Sequent. NUMA permits the box to handle heavy-duty tasks beyond that of typical Intel servers, IBM says. NUMA-Q will also be able to handle Linux, the first high-end Intel server to do so.
For users looking for workgroup or departmental servers, IBM is also announcing the Netfinity 3500 M20, a two-way PC server with up to 2G bytes of memory. It comes with 800-MHz Pentium III CPUs and is geared for handling Web serving, e-mail, and database applications.
Shipping now, the NUMA-Q E410 comes with as many as 64 Intel Pentium III Xeon CPUs, each running at 700 MHz. It starts at $69,000. The Netfinity 3500 M20 is available now and starts at $1,830.
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