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Photos: ‘Tulsa’ Xeon on display

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Photos: ‘Tulsa’ Xeon on display

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Dell showed a PowerEdge 6850 using Intel’s upcoming “Tulsa” Xeon processor at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo on Wednesday. The Tulsa chip, with 16MB of high-speed cache memory, is used in four-processor servers.

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Photos: ‘Tulsa’ Xeon on display

Intel tucked its “Tulsa” Xeon server away in a cabinet but demonstrated the machine running seven virtual machines using VMware software. Tulsa has 1.3 billion transistors, 16MB of cache memory, and runs at a top speed of 3.4GHz, Intel said.

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By Bill Detwiler
Bill Detwiler is the Editor for Technical Content and Ecosystem at Celonis. He is the former Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and previous host of TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer podcast and Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show.