Dell is preparing a worldwide launch of an enterprise rack server
based on dual Intel Xeon processors in early June, the company
disclosed at the Intel Developer's Forum Japan.
The PowerEdge 2650 is a 2U (4.45cm) size machine supporting DDR
DRAM (dual data rate dynamic RAM) and includes a chipset from
Serverworks and will run either Windows 2000 or RedHat Linux
7.2.
It will sit in the middle of Dell's rack server range, replacing
the 2550 model that was launched in April last year, which is based
on dual Pentium III processors.
Below it will be the company's 1U size 1650 dual Pentium III
processor machine and above it the 4U 6450 quad Xeon processor box,
making it the smallest Xeon-based rack server in Dell's line.
The company would not release more details about the machine on
show at IDF Japan, although a Dell representative said it would be
broadly similar in price and performance to the PowerEdge 4600 dual
Xeon processor tower computer, which was launched in February. He
also hinted that the price would be similar.
The PowerEdge 4600 supports 1.8GHz and 2.2GHz Xeon processors and
between 512M bytes and 12G bytes of memory, has a 400MHz system bus
and 64-bit PCI-X bus.
Dell was one of several server vendors showing dual- and
multiple-chip Xeon processor-based machines at IDF. The other
companies, including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, NEC and Fujitsu have
either announced their machines or released them.