14 DAY TRIAL // Shortly after Intel introduced its new Xeon E7-series CPUs, that support up to 10 physical processing cores, NEC has announced that the chips will be fully supported by the company's Express5800/A1080a server and that is also accepting orders for Xeon E7 field upgrades.
NEC's machines can support up to eight Xeon E7 processors as well as up to 2TB of RAM memory inside a 7U chassis and were designed to be used with memory hungry SQL environments, virtualization solutions, compute-intensive databases or for high-availability business and industrial applications.
In addition, the systems feature up to 12 PCI Express x8 and two PCI Express x16 slots, so they can be paired together with various GPGPU solutions to deliver increased processing power.
The rest of the specs include a dual channel SAS 6Gbps controller with support for RAID 0/1/10/50, up to 12 drive bays, two Gigabit Ethernet NICs, various monitoring and control technologies, and 2N redundant 80PLUS Gold certified power supply units.
“Intel welcomes NEC's announcement of the Express5800/A1080a series with support for Intel Xeon processor E7 architecture,” said Boyd Davis, vice president and general manager of Intel's Data Center Group Marketing.
“We're excited to see NEC's continued support of the enhanced speed and reliability now available with the Intel Xeon processor E7 family.
“The NEC Express5800/A1080a is a compelling complement to NEC's portfolio of mission critical systems. As a long-standing partner, NEC continues to help us deliver the performance, scalability and reliability required for the most demanding enterprise applications, large-scale server consolidation and database environments,” conclude Intel's rep.
Sadly, NEC didn't state which of the 13 Xeon E7 processors announced by Intel yesterday will be available in its systems.
The Intel Xeon E7 processors are built using the company's Westmere-EX architecture and can pack between six and 10 processing cores while their operating frequencies range between 1.73 and 2.67 GHz.