Wednesday, May 24, 2006

New Galaxy server--the X4600--coming soon?

I've just been perusing Sun's documentation site, looking for X4200 documentation. At the page that lists the servers, I noticed an entry for the Sun Fire X4600.

Given that the X2100 is two core 1U, the X4100 is four core 1U and the X4200 is four core 2U, I reckon the X4600 is a four core 6U machine. What that extra 4U buys is anyone's guess, but I suspect that more SAS drive bays would be top of the list, and perhaps a memory expansion card. A CPU/memory card also fill some of the space, but that would go against the naming convention (assuming I parsed it correctly, of course!). Time will tell...

3 Comments:

At 24/5/06 23:26, Anonymous Anonymous said...

My bet is on 4 sockets / 8 cores. :)

 
At 25/5/06 01:32, Blogger Peter Tribble said...

The latest source drop includes code for an X4500 as well. That's another box in the pipeline.

On the sparc front, a V445 patch got released a day or two back, so maybe the V215/V245/V445 refresh isn't that far away either.

 
At 26/5/06 08:50, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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