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First? Appros release of the 1142H last week? Me thinks Angstrom are doing an Apple.
[Posted by: Fearless 
| Date: 04/01/04 05:35:31 PM]
| Date: 04/01/04 05:35:31 PM]Angstrom Microsystems today unveiled the world’s first 1U blade server based on 4 AMD Opteron microprocessors – previously unbelievable dense is not only the reality, but is something that the company is shipping now.
Angstrom Microsystems is a high-performance computing (HPC) company providing AMD64 expertise and knowledge of HPC software in the bio-informatics, scientific computing, financial modeling, graphics rendering, and oil and gas industries. Specifically for its targeted markets Angstrom developed its Titan64 QuadraBlade – rack that houses 52 blades for a total of 208 AMD Opteron processors – the densest blade configuration in the industry today
A Titan64 QuadraBlade rack is comprised of four stacked nests, each nest housing 13 QuadraBlades for a total of 4 x 13 blade, or 52 blades. Each blade is a four-processor cache coherent, shared memory (SMP) system with the option of 2 SCSI, IDE, Serial ATA HDDs and high-speed interconnects such as Myrinet or Infiniband.
Additional details, such as clock-speed and power consumption, about the first 1U server based on AMD Opteron chips are not clear.
The Titan64 QuadraBlade is available immediately and has been on display at the Bio-IT World show in
