Compaq has announced that two 8-way servers will be available locally in the second half of the year. The servers, with the flashy names Thunder and Lightning, will feature Pentium III Xeon processors in module-based chassis.
Thunder is an ultra-capacity server, with internal space for up to 21 1-inch Wide Ultra2 SCSI hot plug drives, with an upgrade for the ProLiant 7000 available. Lightning is the next generation of the ProLiant 6500 and uses external storage to keep the form factor limited, which means up to six servers can be placed in a standard 42U rack.
The ProFusion architecture used in the 8-way range, which was developed in co-operation with Intel and Corollary, will provide standards-based servers with unprecedented performance and scalability, says Compaq.
"It is a myth that software does not support this kind of computing power," says local product manager of Enterprise Computing, Tony Bogatie.
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