Fujitsu Computer Systems and SGI last week announced servers intended for data center operations.

Fujitsu's Primergy BX630 Blade server and the Primergy RX220 use dual-core AMD Opteron processors. Fujitsu launched a range of dual-core Opteron-based workstations in August.

The BX630 Blade uses an Opteron 246 processor with 1G byte of RAM. The Opteron 246 processor uses a low-power budget (the ratio of power consumption and related heat dissipation to computing power), a feature critical to data centers.

BX630 blade servers can be installed in the Primergy BX600 chassis and mixed with existing Intel Xeon-based Primergy BX620 S2 or BX660 blade servers.

The BX630, which starts at $2,350, uses the HyperTransport interconnect making it possible to link two BX630 server blades into a single four-processor blade.

The RX220, which starts at $1,700, uses an Opteron 246 processor with 1G byte of RAM and a single 80G-byte serial ATA disk drive. It is a rack-mountable 1U (1.75-inch) high server designed for high-performance computing environments. Its Opteron processor is optimized for memory-intensive arithmetic applications.

SGI announced the Altix 1330 cluster for high-performance compute environments. The 1330 cluster consists of Intel Itanium 2 processors running Red Hat or SuSE Linux. The Altix 1330 uses SGI's NUMAflex shared memory architecture, which is also used in SGI's Altix 330 which SGI launched in July targeted at small and midsize businesses.

The Altix 1330 cluster can scale out to hundreds of nodes. A single node can contain as many as 16 processors, and individual nodes can be interconnected with InfiniBand from Voltaire, Myrinet from Myricom or Platform LSF.

A 16-processor Altix 1330 node starts at under $90,000 and is available now.