CNet:
IBM has begun shipping 16-processor x440 servers, its highest-end mainstream machines using Intel chips, the company plans to announce Wednesday.
The system consists of two eight-processor, rack-mounted systems that are 7 inches tall and connected with high-speed cables. It’s the current flag-bearer for IBM’s sustained effort to build ever more powerful Intel servers. The system uses the first version of Intel’s Xeon MP processor, code-named Foster MP.
An x440 with 16 processors and 8GB of memory costs $81,000, said Deep Advani, vice president of IBM’s xSeries servers.