SGI, Dell unveil midrange SMB servers

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
07/14/05
Today's focus: SGI, Dell unveil midrange SMB servers

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Today's focus: SGI, Dell unveil midrange SMB servers

By Deni Connor

Two systems vendors this week unveiled servers for small and
midsized businesses - SGI announced a midrange Linux server, and
Dell announced a dual-core server.

SGI's $7,000 Altix 330 server is designed for manufacturing,
database and bioinformatics workgroups within larger
enterprises. It uses Intel's Itanium 2 processor and can scale
to as many as 16 processors and 128G bytes of memory.

It is a 1U high pizza-size box that contains one or two
processors. Additional processors can be added by stacking Altix
330 servers and interconnecting them with SGI's NUMAlink
architecture.

NUMAlink, a 6.4G byte/sec bi-directional technology,
interconnects servers much like Myricom's Myrinet; it uses the
shared memory architecture called NUMAflex.

The rack-mountable server runs either 64-bit versions of Red Hat
or SuSE Linux. As many as 39 servers can fit in a 39U rack. The
server runs at 1.3 GHz to 1.6 GHz.

The SGI Altix 330 will be available this month.

Dell's PowerEdge SC430 uses Intel's dual-core processor
technology, where two processors share a single die, thus
increasing performance and power efficiency. It replaces the
PowerEdge SC420, doubling the older model's speed and storage
capacity.

Dell says the server is designed for e-mail, file and print
sharing and Internet access - or for businesses looking to buy
their first general-purpose server.

The server ships with the Dell Server Assistant for PowerEdge
SC, a management utility used to install the operating system.
It works with Microsoft Server 2003, or Red Hat or SuSE Linux.

The SC430 uses either Intel Celeron, Prescott or Pentium D
processors and ships with as much as 4G bytes of RAM. It can be
configured with Serial ATA or SCSI drives.

The SC430 is available now, starting at $499.

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

SGI to sell pre-configured Altix 350 clusters
IDG News Service, 01/26/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/0126sgitose.html?rl

Server sales show modest growth
Network World, 05/30/05
http://www.networkworld.com/nlservers3275

Dell begins dual-core push, upgrades blade servers
Network World, 07/11/05
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071105-dell.html?rl
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Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering
storage, Unix, Novell, Macintosh and IT in Healthcare. You can
reach her at <mailto:dconnor@nww.com>.
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