Dell is anticipating Intel’s launch next week of the Nehalem EX Xeon processor by introducing new servers based on the processors. Yesterday Dell announced new PowerEdge servers based on Intel’s newest Xeon processor – the Dell PowerEdge R710 features, according to Dell, the best performance per watt. It also features a LifeCycle Controller that allows integrated management from a single point and through a link to Dell manages the life cyle of the machine.
The company also introduced a partnership with Altiris to unify systems management. Called the Dell Management Console, can eliminate or reduce manual systems management processes. Other vendors such as HP, IBM and Sun are expected to wait until Intel’s Monday launch of Nehalem. Earlier this month Cisco revealed that its upcoming blade server will be based on the Nehalem processor.
Details on Nehalem are sparse – Intel has not released pricing or performance. In spite of that, Intel says the Nehalem processor offers the largest performance differential of any of its Xeon product launches.
Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of the server platforms group at Intel, says approximately nine servers could be displaced with a Nehalem-based server. With Nehalem, Intel has wrought out increased performance by eliminating the front side bus and adding a memory controller to the chip.
Nehalem supports 2 to 8+ cores and up to 16+ threads. As is Intel’s wont, Nehalem is named after a city in Tillamook County, Oregon.
