Egenera Announces Two-way Processing Blade Based on the Intel Xeon Processor 2.80 GHz; Industry's Most Powerful Two-way Blade Server Runs Customers' Most Demanding Applications.Business/Technology Editors MARLBORO Marlboro or Marlborough (märl`bərō), city (1990 pop. 31,813), Middlesex co., E Mass.; settled on the site of a Native American village 1657, inc. as a city 1890. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2002 Egenera Inc., the leader in next-generation datacenter infrastructure, today introduced a two-way Egenera(TM) Processing Blade(TM) leveraging the Intel(R) Xeon(TM) processor 2.80 GHz, announced yesterday. "With this product, Egenera continues to lead the market for server blades and extends our competitive advantage," said Susan Davis Susan A. Davis (born April 13, 1944), is an American politician who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing California's 53rd congressional district (map). , vice president of product marketing and management at Egenera. "While legacy vendors talk about delivering enterprise-class blades that perform like real servers, our BladeFrame(TM) system--which features both two-way blades and the industry's only four-way bladed servers--has been running mission-critical production applications since we started shipping last fall. By combining purpose-built hardware with software-driven resource virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , Egenera gives customers unique access to the manageability, flexibility and cost savings of blades without sacrificing the processing power and mainframe-class RAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Remote Access Service) A Windows NT/2000 Server feature that allows remote users access to the network from their Windows laptops or desktops via modem. See RRAS and network access server. needed to run a business." Egenera now provides six Intel-based Processing Blade configurations: Four-way SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. -- Intel Xeon processor MP 1.60 GHz, 512K L2 cache, 1M L3 cache with 12 GB ECC DDR memory -- Intel Xeon processor MP 1.40 GHz, 512K L2 cache, 512K L3 cache with 12 GB ECC DDR memory Two-way SMP -- Intel Xeon processor 2.80 GHz, 512K L2 cache (Level 2 cache) A memory bank built into the CPU chip, packaged within the same module or built on the motherboard. The L2 cache feeds the L1 cache, and its memory is slower than L1 memory. The L2 cache feeds the L1 cache, which feeds the processor. with 6 GB ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory memory -- Intel Xeon processor 2.20 GHz, 512K L2 cache with 6 GB ECC DDR memory -- Intel Pentium(R) III processor 1.26 GHz, 512K L2 cache with 2 GB ECC SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. memory -- Intel Pentium III processor 1 GHz, 256K L2 cache with 2 GB ECC SDRAM memory The Intel Xeon processor 2.80 GHz provides Intel's highest frequency for dual-processor servers, offering the best results for multi-threaded applications and multi-tasking environments. The Intel NetBurst(TM) micro-architecture enhances bandwidth, throughput and thread-level parallelism to further accelerate performance. Increased reliability means less system downtime, while increased scalability provides the headroom necessary for business growth. The Egenera BladeFrame, with its Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture, assembles purpose-built hardware and management software in a fully integrated computing platform that enables enterprise-class datacenters to quantifiably achieve savings, optimize application availability and drive market agility. The BladeFrame combines the reliability and manageability of a mainframe, the scalability of distributed computing and the price/performance of commodity components to deliver the only processing architecture that makes Lintel viable for mission-critical applications. Leveraging the Red Hat(R) Linux(R) operating system, the BladeFrame creates a pool of up to 96 server-class Intel processors on 24 hot-pluggable Processing Blades interconnected via a very high-speed, internal network and deployed through Egenera PAN Manager(TM) software. As new processors become available, customers enjoy a built-in migration path and eliminate forklift upgrades by simply replacing individual Processing Blades. Likewise, multiple processor and OS generations can run simultaneously on a single BladeFrame, protecting earlier investments. With no local disk, and therefore no state, Processing Blades are anonymous and interchangeable--a unique characteristic that enables datacenters to dynamically increase, decrease and reallocate Verb 1. reallocate - allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" reapportion allocate, apportion - distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of processing capacity to support new applications or accommodate variable demand on existing applications without purchasing, installing or managing incremental equipment. About Egenera Inc. Egenera has delivered tomorrow's datacenter today by integrating hardware, software, networking and services into simple, yet powerful machines. The Company's BladeFrame system helps large enterprises achieve savings, optimize application availability and drive business agility. Privately held, Egenera has assembled a senior management team and engineering staff with an average 20-plus years' experience working with the industry's foremost providers and users of enterprise-class hardware and software systems. This collective technical, customer and business experience uniquely positions the Company to reinvent datacenter computing. Relationships with EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Intel, Oracle, Red Hat and Turbolinux, among others, further strengthen the Egenera value proposition. Headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., Egenera has offices in Charlotte, Dallas, London, Los Angeles, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , San Francisco, Tokyo and Washington D.C. For details, visit www.egenera.com, send email to info@egenera.com or call 508-858-2600. Egenera, Egenera stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. logos, BladeFrame, PAN Manager and Processing Blade are trademarks of Egenera, Inc. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks and NetBurst and Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Red Hat is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. The information in this document is subject to change without notice. |
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