Sun polishes off St. Pauli Girl blade
Niagara box with a nice rack
Posted in Storage , 10th November 2006 19:31 GMT
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Sun Microsystems' mainstream Niagara-blade approacheth.
The Register has discovered the presence of St. Paul. This blade server will run on Sun's current UltraSPARC T1 chip and fit into Sun's Opteron-based blade chassis. Officially, the server looks to be called the Sun Blade T6300.
The one-socket blade will have 8 DIMMs, 4 disks, 2 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet ports, 2 USB 2.0 ports and a service processor. The system then taps the power supplies, fans and I/O slots that are part of the blade chassis.
The box is set to ship in March.
(Thanks to Mr. Keyworth you know who for the heads up.)
Sun's UltraSPARC T1 - aka Niagara - chip has been one of the company's most pleasant surprises. Customers have been purchasing more than $100m worth of UltraSPARC T1-based servers per quarter.
The multi-core chip is best suited for web serving and other lightweight, multi-threaded software jobs.
Sun currently sells Netra blades with the UltraSPARC T1 inside for the telco market. ®
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