InfoWorld: Penguin delivers eight-way Linux server

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 10, 1999

“Penguin Computing appears to be the latest miner in the Linux
server gold rush, delivering an eight-way server based on Intel’s
500-MHz Pentium III Xeon chip and running Red Hat’s 5.2 Version of
Linux.”

“Scheduled to be shown off at next week’s Internet World show in
Los Angeles, the system features a 128MB Level 3 cache, intended to
enhance the capability to access data in large corporate databases
more quickly.”

“The new system uses NEC’s Acqua chipset to support eight-way
processing and has made its own software modification to Linux,
although the company plans to implement Intel’s Profusion chip set
for eight-way processing later this year.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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