It’s hip2b2

Pushing the statistic of computing power per square inch, is Supermicro’s new Quad-Opteron 1U server. In the Register article, it states:

Customers can purchase a the H8QC8+ quad server board that holds up to four of AMD’s dual-core 800 Series chips and supports a 1GHz Hypertransport link. Samples of the system have already started shipping and volume shipments should occur in the next few weeks. The board - without CPUs - starts at $1,300, while a server system without CPUs will start at $2,200.

Why can’t Intel do the same with its Xeon processors? The article adds:

The four-socket 1U system would be impossible to build with today’s Xeon chips.

It’s a bit pricy at $2,200 for the system without the CPUs and storage devices. But, I believe those wanting to setup high CPU environments would like this. One market I can think of who will like this offering is the J2ee-using Mobile Content Provider (CP). Or maybe software-powered DVRs?

If Google decides to use these it must be good!

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