Dell has updated its 17 PowerEdge servers with new technology from AMD and Intel.
The updated servers are expected to provide businesses with a platform to accelerate the deployment of cloud computing infrastructures, manage virtualised data centres, and consolidate mission-critical application workloads in open, capable and affordable x86 architecture.
The company has also introduced the PowerEdge C6145 server that is specifically designed to handle HPC applications, video rendering, virtualisation, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads which demand massive computational power including: large core count, high memory density, and massive I/O expansion, said the company.
In addition, the server comes with upto two independent 4-socket server nodes in a 2U chassis with the AMD Opteron 6000 processors, which enhances performance per node while reducing space, weight and consuming less energy.
Further, customers can scale up to 96 cores, up to 1TB memory, and expanded I/O to quickly compile data and results, and connect to other resources.
Dell is also introducing the new Intel Xeon 5600 series Westmere-EP processors across its entire line of two-socket PowerEdge servers, including blade servers (M610, M710, M610X and M710HD blades), rack servers (R710, R610, R510, R410, C1100, C2100, C6100) and tower servers (T710, T610, T410).
The new Intel Xeon 5600-based series 4 and 6 core processors, enables PowerEdge customers experience enhanced boost on integer computing throughput over current Xeon 5600 processors, and can achieve gain in performance compared to Dell PowerEdge servers with the previous generation of Intel Xeon 5500 series processor.
Dell also provides the new AMD Opteron 6000 processors with its PowerEdge R715 and R815 servers and PowerEdge C6145.
