IBM is already adapting the new Xeons to its X3 server architecture, announced late last month. The company is employing the 64-bit Xeons in its eServer xSeries 366, the first in a planned IBM family of dual-core-capable Intel-based server offerings, and IBM's Susan Whitney said the price/performance afforded by the 4-way Xeons should draw intense customer interest.
"We've benchmarked the x366 at performance that's 40 percent better than anything else on the market, and at 30 percent less price. That's a winning proposition for our customers," said Whitney, general manager of IBM's eServer iSeries division. "And on our platform, you can scale to a 32-way system." IBM is offering the x366 at $6,999.
As for software, Andy Lees, corporate vice president for the server and tools business at Microsoft, said that details of the 64-bit Windows Server 2003 will be forthcoming at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference (WinHEC) to be held in late April in Seattle. Lees also confirmed that Microsoft will base its Windows Server license for multicore systems on the number of processors in a system, not the number of cores.
Users of 64-bit systems based on the new Xeons should see substantial performance improvements under Windows Server 2003, Lees said; for instance, Active Directory calls at 64-bit should double their throughput rate, while Terminal Services at 64-bit permitted 170 percent more users in recent testing.
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