Dell on Tuesday told it has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the now-freed XVI-core Opteron processors from encouraged Micro Machines.


The company has promoted the 4-socket PowerEdge M915 blade server, which will be capable to add up to 64 Opteron 6200 chip cores. The fresh servers will be quicker than the M915 with the elder XII-core Opteron 6100 chips.


AMD previous week declared the availability of its 1st Opteron 6200 server processors, which carry the nearly cores present on X86 chips now. The chips, code-called Interlagos, are 25% to 30% quicker than their XII-core predecessors. The novel chips are founded on the fresh Bulldozer processor architecture, which is too more power effective.


Dell brought in the M915 previous year as a virtualization and high-function computing server. With 64 cores, the fresh chips will assist elaborate the number of virtual devices available, and too furnish more horsepower to velocity high-end app such as databases.


The server arrives with multiple ten-gigabit Ethernet slots to velocity the server function in virtualized environments. The server can be elaborated to XII networking slots.


The server affirms Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Windows HPC Server 2008, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. calculating on the OS, virtualization support is furnished for Citrix XenServer, VMware's vSphere and Microsoft's Hyper-Five.


Dell is too fitting the PowerEdge R715 and R815 rack servers and the dumb PowerEdge C6145 server with AMD's fresh chips.