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| | Breaking News--IBM Rolls Out Compact, Two-Core p5 Unix/Linux Server |
 | | The p5 510 is a rack-mounted machine that fits in a 2U form factor and comes with either a dual-core Power5 chip (making it the equivalent of a two-way symmetric multiprocessing server) or a Power5 chip with only one of its cores activated (the other is a dud and cannot be dynamically turned on). |
 | | The p5 510 has a dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI controller, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two USB ports, two Hardware Management Console ports (Yes, you have to buy an outboard box to use this server, and it costs a couple grand, by the way.), and three PCI-X slots. |
 | | A base p5 510 with a single 1.5 GHz core, 512 MB of main memory, and a 73 GB disk drive costs $3,967. |
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