IDF Fall 2003: Intel introduces Compute Blade SBXL52

 

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By Alun Williams

Posted on 18 Sep 2003 at 09:38

News on the enterprise front has been quieter this IDF (the Itanium 2 was launched at the last Spring IDF), with mobile processing hogging most of the limelight. There are a few things of note, however.

For example, Intel has introduced its Enterprise Blade Server family, the first product of which is the Intel Server Compute Blade SBXL52. This features two Xeon processors per blade, with a total of 14 blades per chassis.

It also plans to release a four-way Intel Xeon processor MP-based blade later this year, which is codenamed McCarran.

And in his Enterprise keynote today, Mike Fister - general manager of the Enterprise Platforms Group - also ran through the roadmaps for the Xeon and Itanium servers.

The first Xeon produced on the 90nm process (codenamed Nocoma) will appear in the first half of 2004 and an additional 90nm processor (Jayhawk) will follow. Nocona will be supported by new server and workstation chipsets code-named Lindenhurst, Lindenhurst VS and Tumwater.

The Xeon MP (multi processor) range will be extended with a larger cache processor in the first half of 2004. The first Xeon MP produced on the 90nm process (codenamed Potomac) will follow, supported by a new Intel chipset (code-named Twin Castle). And then will come the dual-core Xeon, Tulsa.

As for the 64-bit Itanium 2, we should see a larger cache processor in 2004, and new additions to the dual processor and lower power ranges, also in 2004.