SGI Does More Than 'Talk' Xeon 5600

Server vendors are all over the Xeon 5600 processor hype with talk, but Silicon Graphics is actually putting a new Xeon 5600 machine into the field. According to this report on The Register, SGI's new baby blade, the Origin 400 includes an integrated SAS/RAID storage area network.

"Being a modern machine, the Origin 400 is of course a baby blade server, and it includes an integrated SAS/RAID storage area network for the blades to share. The 6U chassis fits in a normal 19-inch rack and will probably be available in a standalone configuration tipped up on its side at some point to chase the office environment.

"The chassis has room for six two-socket x64 blades, and is based on Intel's 5520 chipset and supports the new six-core and four-core Xeon 5600 family of chips as well as last year's four-core and two-core Xeon 5500s. Each blade has a dozen DDR3 memory slots and supports DDR3 DIMMs running at 800MHz, 1GHz, and 1.3GHz. Using 8GB DIMMs, memory tops out at 96GB, and using the six-core Xeon 5600s, the number of cores in the chassis tops out at 72."

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