Photos: 'Tulsa' Xeon on display

Photos: ‘Tulsa’ Xeon on display

By Bill Detwiler August 16, 2006, 9:35 AM PDT billdetwiler

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Tulsa Dell — 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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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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