Dell announced the PowerEdge C6105 rack-mount server, which can accommodate up to 48 processor cores in a 2U box. The server can create large clusters to run scientific or math applications, and can also scale performance in densely packed cloud-computing environments, company officials said.
The server will run on Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron 4000-series processors, and includes four two-socket motherboards, with each socket accommodating processors with up to six cores. The server is a complementary offering to Dell’s existing PowerEdge C6100 scale-out rack server, which runs on Intel’s Xeon processors.
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