OSTG Marketing's Journal: Exclusive: Sun's new big iron bends the rules

Sun has a new system - the Sun Fire x4600 M2 . At first glance you might think it's a quad-socket system, but look again. The Sun Fire x4600 M2 holds eight (eight!) easily swappable sockets. "Armed with current dual-core Opteron processors, this equals 16 cores per server, so a rackful would bring the total to 160 cores. The Sun Fire x4600 M2 will also be able to run with the next-generation quad-core AMD Opteron chips, bringing the total core count per rack to an amazing 320. Packed with 128GB of RAM per server, that's a full terabyte of RAM in the same rack. At $51,995 for a single x4600 with eight dual-core Opteron 8128 CPUs, 32GB of RAM, and two 73GB SAS drives, that power doesn't come cheap, but the x4600 offers quite a bit of bang for the buck."