Intel, IBM, Others Craft Speedy Servers for Cloud Computing

Intel executives showed off the company’s microserver reference design, which can put 16 compute modules in a 5U (8.75-inch) enclosure.

Introduced the day before IDF kicked off, SGI officials call Octane III a personal supercomputer that can hold up to 80 processing cores.

SGI’s CloudRack enclosure can hold up to 114 dual-socket or 228 single-socket servers.

IBM’s iDataPlex server array looks to pack as much computing power into standard 42U rack as possible, and offers half-depth systems powered by Intel’s Xeon 5500 Series chips and DDR3 memory.

Dell’s 2U (3.5-inch) enclosure holds up to four dual-socket blades powered by Intel’s Xeon 5500 chips and offers shared power and cooling.

Verari’s Cloud Appliance looks to address the issue of scaling storage in cloud computing environments, allowing for growth to store from terabytes to petabytes of data.

Verari’s VB1300 Series blade server can hold two quad-core Xeon 5500 Series chips, offers up to 144GB of DDR3 memory and up to 4TB of local storage.

SuperMicro’s 2U Twin 2 enclosure can hold up to four compute nodes and offers hot-swappable power supplies and hard drives.