LinuxHam's Journal: IBM now selling dual-core Opteron blade servers

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For any AMD fans out there, check this out. Now you can run Intel, POWER5, and AMD side-by-side in a single blade chassis.

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[heliocentric]

Yeah, they're "selling" them, but we keep hearing internally that Sun has contracted to be the first to market with the dual core opteron based system.

Re: Sun Opteron blade

[LinuxHam]

Hey there! Thanks for your comment!

I did a little digging around and I saw Sun's plans for a blade were announced last September, and availability of Opteron-based systems appears to have been announced at the same conference we announced an Opteron blade. The Register [theregister.co.uk] seems to think you never delivered that dual-core Opteron blade. Which again, would align with your quote about hearing internal rumors. Can your blade chassis support RISC and x86 platforms side-by-side? (Not picking or attacking, just hone