IBM has announced that it will be rolling out two 4-way
SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) servers this week containing features that the company
hopes can give the servers a strong performance advantage in running Windows 2000 Server.
The Netfinity 7600 and 7100 systems will feature chip-kill correction technology. The
system will also feature Active PCI, which allows the operating system to configure a
network card automatically; a Power Fuel Gauge that alerts IT administrators when overall
system resources are being over taxed; and a dedicated services processor. The new systems
are powered by four Pentium III Xeon 550-MHZ chips with 1MB or 2MB cache. They are able to
support as much as 16GB of memory and three redundant hot-swap power supplies and can be
configured as either a rack-mount or tower.
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