“Dell said it plans to deliver an eight-processor Pentium
III Xeon server at the end of September.
Dell, which will announce the product on Monday, joins several
vendors shipping similar eight-way systems based on the Profusion
chip set from Intel, which provides technology to let vendors ship
standardized systems of up to eight Intel processors. The previous
limit on standardized Intel-architecture servers was four
processors, although some vendors shipped proprietary systems
running up to 64 processors.”
“The server will support Linux when Red Hat releases its version
of the Linux kernel supporting up to eight processors, which is
expected in November or December.”