Sun's introduction of the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module is as "the world's first blade server designed for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors." This blade module comes with up to four AMD Opteron dual core 8222 CPUs (upgradable to quad core), up to 128GB DDR2-667 memory and offer four-socket dual core 3.0GHz (95w) CPUs with 32 DIMM slots.

The Sun Blade X8440 Server Module is available today with dual-core, Second-Generation AMD Opteron Model 8222 processors (3.0 GHz), and is scheduled to be available with Quad-Core AMD Opteron 8300 Series processors by the end of the year. The entry-level pricing starts at $12,785 per server module. Get more technical details in article [18591].

A new system was also introduced that will be available by the end of the year and will have four sockets and is a 2U design. This server is designed for network services consolidation, compute services and database applications. read more in article [18608].

Additional plans for the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors include adding them to rackmount and blade platforms such as the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server, Sun Fire X2200 M2 server, Sun Fire X4100 M2 and Sun Fire X4200 M2 servers, and in the Sun Constellation System. The Sun Constellation System is the world's first petascale computing environment.

"Sun's innovative systems design combined with AMD's native quad-core architecture creates an ideal x64 platform optimized for performance, manageability and power efficiency," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group at Sun Microsystems. "Our next-gen systems built on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and powered by the enterprise-class capabilities of the Solaris OS will showcase Sun's expertise in designing for HPC, virtualization and web-tier applications." [...read more...]

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