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To provide the horsepower required by these and the museum's many other specialized applications, the creaky Dell servers had to be replaced with new systems. Due in part to his past experience with AS/400, Horio opted for midrange servers from IBM. The museum purchased seven systems from IBM's eServer series.
The eServer series includes two lines: the iSeries, IBM's replacement for the AS/400; and the xSeries, which replaces the Intel-based NetFinity and NUMA-Q servers.
The museum has two IBM iSeries servers and seven xSeries machines. The xSeries systems vary in size from 1U to 3U and support Windows and Linux.
The museum already has an i270 entry-level workgroup server, which now hosts Lotus Domino. A new, larger i820 was fitted with eight Integrated xSeries Servers, which are PCI-X blade servers that plug directly into the iSeries servers.
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