Visionman Computers, a manufacturer of servers, gaming systems and notebooks, has announced the release of the latest addition to its Acserva brand. The Acserva ViXone7 family of servers are the first servers to support Intel’s newly-launched ‘Nehalem’ architecture as per company claims.
In early November of this year, Intel introduced its first CPU releases based upon the Intel Core i7 platform to rave reception from high performance desktop users and gaming enthusiasts. The Intel core i7 processor was actually designed with high performance server applications in mind and Intel plans to officially launch their server-focused, Xeon-branded offering based on the Core i7 platform in Q1-2009.
Visionman has engineered a new line of Core i7-based servers ahead of the official Intel Xeon release, launching this new technology directly into the server space.
The Acserva ViXone7 family has also re-introduced hyper-threading, a technology which allows each core to process two threads simultaneously. As a result, Windows and Linux operating systems will actually read eight cores from the four physical CPU cores. The Visionman Core i7 servers also offer triple-channel memory support. Memory modules are installed in banks of three, increasing throughput and efficiency on the faster QuickPath Interconnect, delivering a staggering 4.8 giga-transfers per second to the CPU.
Starting at $1799.99, this new series of Visionman Acserva Core i7 servers is designed with the small to medium business in mind. Each model delivers improved database performance, and allows businesses to consolidate their IT infrastructure. All form factors are offered, from Visionman 1U rackmounted to tower server based.