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Growth Spurt: Intel-based Servers Scale Up
Not your grandfather’s commodity hardware platform

by Stephen Swoyer

http://www.esj.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=453

March 13, 2003

Intel servers are growing up in a hurry, as some major vendors are now shipping 16-way systems. At the same time, 32- and 64-way Intel servers from a handful of industry heavyweights are poised to challenge entrenched RISC-Unix systems in some markets, analysts say.

For years, Unisys Corp.—which markets its ES7000 line of Intel-based servers—was the only game in town, at least when it came to greater-than-16-way systems. But in the past 12 months, NEC has demonstrated a shipping 32-way Itanium-based system and Silicon Graphics Inc. is now selling a 64-way Itanium-based supercomputer. Meanwhile, Fujitsu Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), and—as of last week—IBM Corp. have all made noises about marketing, respectively 128-way, 64-way and 32-way Intel-based servers.

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