HP announced the blade server family using Itanium chips

Today, HP will announce the first version of its blade server using Intel Itanium chips, with the ability to run HP-UX versions of Unix, as well as operating system versions. Linux and Microsoft Windows.

HP is currently the second-largest blade server distributor after IBM . However, the product lines of the two companies differed, which is the IBM blade server (using Power chips) that can run IBM's Unix, AIX OS versions, but the HP products cannot run. its own operator. The difference will be blurred with the new HP blade server version, powered by Intel's Itanium chip.

Most blade servers use x86 processors, such as Xeon (Intel) and Opteron (AMD). IBM, HP, Dell and Sun Microsystems all use these chips. Specifically, Dell uses Xeon, and Sun Microsystems use Opteron for blade server versions in the next few months .

According to the previous plan, the HP blade server family of Intel Itanium chips will appear around the middle of this year, but the plan has not been implemented. It is known that Intel's new dual-core Itanium chip (codenamed " Montecito ") was also delayed until mid-2006.

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