A whole new look for x86 systems

摘要

With its lease about up on its midrange Sun Fire V880, the Applied Research Laboratory at The Pennsylvania State University was looking to cut costs and boost efficiencies. Initially, its plan was straightforward: move off the expensive Sun box and onto lower-priced Xeon-based Dell servers running Linux. Today, however, the research lab is taking a second look at Sun and its new Opteron-based Galaxy servers. The servers, introduced last month, are the first x86 boxes designed by Sun engineers. Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim is leading the design team building the servers focused on high performance, better cooling and advanced manageability.