Two technology demonstrations in September served notice that Intel Corp. is poised to make a move in the high-end server space.
Unisys Corp. demonstrated an ES7000 system populated with 32 Itanium 2 microprocessors and outfitted with 128GB of memory. The Unisys system hosted a 64-bit version of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows .NET Server 2003, as well as a 64-bit edition of the software giant's SQL Server database.
NEC'S demonstration of a 32-way Itanium 2-based TX7 server recorded the fifth-best result for a non-clustered system in the Transaction Processing Performance Council's (TPC) TPC-C benchmark. Though the system trailed four Unix systems, its price/performance ...