Supermicro Announces Quad-Opteron 1U Motherboard 158
hpcanswers writes "Supermicro, a producer of systems for the high-performance computing market, has announced a 1U-sized quad Opteron motherboard for the OEM market. The product, which is on display at CeBIT this week, supports both HyperTransport and PCI Express. It also consumes 1000 watts of power. Supermicro's announcement is all the more interesting because the company has historically only supported Intel processors."
It all makes sense (Score:5, Funny)
FINALLY. (Score:5, Funny)
A pizza box that will actually cook your pizza.
Re:Imagine what a... (Score:4, Funny)
nothing - after they blow the breakers. 1 kw is a lot of juice. per 1U.
So quick - convince your boss he needs one of those for his desktop, and you'll "inherit" the dual cpu you conned him into buying a few months ago so you could "inherit" his last desktop.
Re:1000 Watts of power!??!?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Boring - NOT! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Boring - NOT! (Score:5, Funny)
Much better use of space (Score:4, Funny)
For example I could take out 8x 1U Intel based Dell web servers and replace it with 1 8way supermicro Opteron machine.
The Opteron server couple probably serve content faster than the 8 Intel based Dells plus with the additional 7u space I'll easily have enough space to put a saucepan on top to boil water for tea, thereby saving myself the 80p I normally spend in the data center vending machine.
Re:1000 Watts of power!??!?! (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, right. That's what the power companies want you to believe.
Re:Imagine what a... (Score:1, Funny)
Run Vista?