The Sun Blade 8000, measured a whopping 33.25 inches tall, a significant jump over competing products from Hewlett-Packard and IBM. The 8000 P is a more modest 24.5 inches tall and is meant for compute clusters rather than mainstream business computing tasks.

The 8000 P, like its sibling, can accommodate as many as 10 blades, each with four Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices, Sun said. However, it has fewer power supplies and a simpler input-output system than the previous model. The 8000 P chassis costs $7,495; the starting price for the four-processor server module is $14,600. The system can be ordered now but won't begin shipping until February, Sun said.

The company is hoping that its blade servers, from the "Galaxy" line of x86 servers, will help it tap into growth markets. In 2007, the machines will accommodate models that use UltraSparc "Niagara" processors, Sun has said.

By: DocMemory
Copyright © 2023 CST, Inc. All Rights Reserved