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Server blades certainly aren’t what they used to be. For the past couple of years, they tended to be thin and lean, but there now appears to be a trend toward more heavy-duty blades in the server marketplace. Where traditionally 1P and 2P blades were the norm, most vendors now offer dual-core versions. More recently, however, quad-core blades have been released.

HP (Palo Alto, Calif.), took things a step further when it recently unveiled a 4P server featuring the quad-core Intel Xeon 7300 processor. Known as the BL680c, it is currently HP’s highest-end x86 blade in its c-class BladeSystem portfolio.

“Where HP’s lower-end and half-high blades target infrastructure applications, the Intel-based BL680 blade is targeted toward higher-end workloads and consolidation initiatives,” said Jed Scaramella, an analyst at IDC (Framingham, Mass.) “At four sockets and quad-core capability, the BL680 is well-suited for business processing applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and database workloads.”

Check out this article talking about the BL680c, one of the HP blades. It does sound very cool, using 4xquad core Intel processors would be great for a virtualization/hpc or grid application. It’s always interesting to read what the vendors are doing in terms of evolving the blade platform – the DL580 in a blade?

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