Thanks to Bill
Greenwood for this link.
“… the system will use two Rambus channels, meaning that the
CPU will be exchanging data with main memory at a peak speed of 3.2
gigabytes per second.”
“The new Dell workstations will ship with Linux eventually; Dell
has been selling workstations with Red Hat’s Linux for several
weeks. However, support for other versions of Linux are coming so
Dell can expand to more geographies such as the Asia-Pacific
region, Karnazes said. That’s an indicator that Dell could be close
to a deal with TurboLinux, which is strong in Japan.
“Karnazes said the current Linux workstations Dell is selling
are higher-end… The big customers are government labs and
educational organizations…”
“Dell is “still investigating how proactive we should be” in
spurring Linux development…”