A whole new look for x86 systems

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10/12/05

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* Galaxy systems are beefed-up x86 servers, that give users more
choice when it comes to designing their data centers
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Today's focus:

A whole new look for x86 systems

By Jennifer Mears

With its lease about up on its midrange Sun Fire V880, the
Applied Research Laboratory at The Pennsylvania State University
was looking to cut costs and boost efficiencies. Initially, its
plan was straightforward: move off the expensive Sun box and
onto lower-priced Xeon-based Dell servers running Linux.

Today, however, the research lab is taking a second look at Sun
and its new Opteron-based Galaxy servers. The servers,
introduced last month, are the first x86 boxes designed by Sun
engineers. Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim is leading the
design team building the servers focused on high performance,
better cooling and advanced manageability.

The Galaxy systems are the latest example of beefed-up x86
servers, giving users more choice when it comes to designing
their data centers. The move from expensive, proprietary systems
to less-expensive, standards-based servers is nothing new. But
the trend for the last few years has been to cluster these
low-end servers to provide the processing power needed to
migrate important business applications from high-end systems.
Today, the x86 servers themselves are providing more processing
power,

To read more about x86 servers, please see:
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Jennifer Mears is a Senior Writer at Network World covering
enterprise applications. Reach her at: jmears@nww.com
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