Microsoft deploys IBM servers

Worldwide Computer Products News,  June 27, 2008  

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IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced today that Microsoft is among the first customers for IBM's iDataFlex server systems.

The iDataFlex systems have been installed by Microsoft's High Performance Computing product unit of Microsoft's Windows Server Group to benchmark the Windows HPC Server 2008 cluster computing operating system.

The iDataPlex server systems are designed to reduce installation footprint, reduce power consumption and reduce associated data centre costs. The servers use industry standard components to reduce costs.

IBM also announced that it has expanded the iDataPlex range with high performance options to allow customers to configure supercomputer-level 145 teraFLOPS cluster in just 315 square foot of floorspace. The iDataPlex DX360 HPC uses the 3GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processor and software from Silicon Valley startup ScaleMP to boost bandwidth and memory performance.

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