Photos: Intel's pint-size motherboards
Ever Case blades
Intel and chassis designer Ever Case Technology showed off a somewhat retro blade server Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum.
The 7-inch-thick chassis houses 10 independent servers, each running a quad-core Xeon processor due to ship in early 2007. Each blade uses an S3000PT "Port Townsend" motherboard from Intel but also features its own fan, power supply and disk drives.
Port Townsend motherboard
Dave Kennedy, an Intel product manager, holds a new S3000PT "Port Townsend" server motherboard, a model that accommodates a single dual-core or quad-core Xeon processor and that's about half the size of conventional server motherboards.
The small size means two can be squeezed side by side into a single 1.75-inch-thick rack-mounted server.
Avnet server
Computing equipment distributor Avnet built this 1.75-inch-thick server that houses two S3000PT "Port Townsend" motherboards side by side.
Ever Case server
Ever Case Technology built this 1.75-inch thick server with two S3000PT "Port Townsend" motherboards.