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Monarch ships dual-core Opteron machines; the Cell processor goes open source; and XAMPP makes a better LAMP.
Monday, August 15th, 2005
The Flight of the Monarch
Monarch Computer has announced the addition of dual-core AMD Opteron processors to its Empro line of servers and workstations. The new Opteron-powered Empro computers (pictured at right) can now scale up to four-processor, eight-core configurations; moreover, many Empro customers can upgrade to double the number of cores in existing systems.
Monarch’ s dual-core servers feature high-density RAID arrays larger than four terabytes with Adaptec and 3-Ware RAID controllers, and hard drives from Western Digital, Maxtor, and Hitachi. Monarch two-processor, Opteron servers support up to 16 GB of DDR memory, while the four-processor Empro servers support up to 32 GB of DDR memory. Monarch Empro dual-core workstations support up to four monitors using up to two PCI-E video cards from NVidia and ATI. New Empro workstations support from 512 MB up to 16 GB of DDR memory and storage options from 40 GB to over 1 TB. A dual-core Opteron performs on average 75 percent better than Intel Xeon MP on certain enterprise applications while using 30 percent less power per CPU.
The new dual-core Opteron Empro systems are on sale now. The four-CPU, eight-core 3U rack server starts at $5,822.00. The same system is also available in a 2U form factor. Visit
http://monarchcomputer.com for more information.
Cell Looks for Mates
