June 2010 - Posts

• NEC Express5800 A1080a

  NEC announced their 8-way server with Intel's Xeon 7500 launch on 30 March 2010, along with a published TPC-E performance benchmark result. The listed availability date was 24 June 2010, so the 5800/A1080a should now be available, although I have not Read More... Posted Monday, June 28, 2010 11:36 AM by jchang | 0 Comments Filed under: Hardware, Performance

• New HP ProLiant DL980, 580 and 585 G7 servers

  HP has just announced the ProLiant DL580 G7 and DL980 G7 servers based on the Xeon 7500 series processors, and the DL585 G7 4-way server with the 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 series (Magny-Cours). Apparently the reason for the delay is that the 8-way DL980 Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:03 AM by jchang | 2 Comments Filed under: Hardware, Performance