Dual-Core Servers Pack Up To 1,024 Processor Cores

These Linux servers are said to deliver double the performance of current Altix systems, while using less power and providing more flexibility for data-intensive tasks. The 450 server scales to 38 Itanium 2 sockets, or up to 76 processor cores, and up to 456 Gbyte of globally addressable memory. The 4700 server scales from 8 to 512 CPU sockets, or up to1,024 processor cores, and can accommodate up to 6 Tbytes of globally shared memory.

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